Re: [Bacula-users] Is there any way of throttling a backup?

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Kevin Thorpe <ke...@pr...> wrote:
> This seems like a silly question, but is there any way of throttling a
> backup? normally I run backups at night, but occasionally I need to do one
> during the day and it's causing us network problems. I'd like if possible to
> throttle bacula's network traffic.
>

I have read that iptables and tc both can do this but I did not find a
lot of recent examples. Here is one:

http://www.hackosis.com/2007/11/08/linux-router-bandwidth-management-example/

John