From: Dan L. <da...@la...> - 2008-08-26 16:58:26
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John Drescher wrote: > 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/ pf, available on most BSD systems, can do throttling. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ |