Re: [webmin-l] remote file backup - speed throtteling

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 3/Oct/2006 02:24 Pat Erler wrote ..
> hello jamie,
> 
> is there a way, could you implent a speed throttle for remote file backups
> (via ssh or ftp). the backup server of my webserver is connected over the
> same interface like the world and access to my webservers gets  
> considerably slower when doing a backup, so i need something like "nice
> 19" for transfer speed when doing a backup.

There isn't any way to do this unfortunately - the ssh command that Webmin
uses for remote backups has no bandwidth limiting capabilities. I believe
there is a third-party rsync backup module that may be able to help though..
and rsync has a command-line flag to limit bandwidth usage.

 - Jamie