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Hello, I've been using rsync on some backup servers for years. In 2011 we had a situation where the FS of the backup server was behaving strange, even thou there was enough available I/O, the fs(ext4 on 16TB partition with a lot of inodes) was lagging. After much testing we found that rsync was hammering the fs too hard. At that point I patched rsync to add a stupid option which will sleep

Hi, I'm sorry if this is plain dumb or was already asked, but I couldn't find any reference to this. This is about ssh acting as a real terminal. Do some of you know pipe viewer, or 'pv' ? http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml This clever little bit of code tries to write on your terminal some stats about data going through some pipes. But there's a nasty limitation when going through ssh related to the atomicity of write() lost when going through ssh: Often you have to use multiple PipeVie...

mhh - interesting question...... what about combining the power of throttle ( http://linux.die.net/man/1/throttle ) or similar tools (there are some more like this) with rsync ? via this hint: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-February/014623.html i got a clue how to combine rsync and throttle and gave it a try : cat throttle-wrap #!/bin/bash throttle -k 1 -s 1| "$@" rsync

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7120 Summary: Variable bandwidth limit .. bwlimit Product: rsync Version: 3.1.0 Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: pmdumuid at gmail.com