set speed limit to rsync?

malo_umoran · 03-20-2008, 06:00 PM

Hi,

Is there a way to set a limit for transfer speed of rsync?

Rsync is sometimes negatively affecting other processes which are transferring a lot of data between two servers and I would like to set it transfer speed to a minimum, because rsync has much lower priority for me.

Thanks

Tinkster · 03-20-2008, 06:03 PM

man rsync
/limit

Cheers,
Tink

malo_umoran · 03-20-2008, 06:20 PM

damn ... I must had some kind of a 5 minutes blindness

.

I was searching for speed and limit, but I did not find it. no idea why.

thanks.

Tinkster · 03-20-2008, 06:49 PM

Heh. Happens. ;}

Cheers,
Tink

trickykid · 03-21-2008, 06:11 PM

And for those that don't know it and too lazy to read the man pages it's:

--bwlimit=KBPS

Techtoucian · 08-26-2009, 09:02 PM

For anyone curious, this parameter also seems to apply to disk transfers.

If, like me, you've got a nasty old external disk refusing DMA rattling around and you want to transfer files without chunking your processor, this is the way to do it.

kdelover · 08-27-2009, 01:05 AM

use the --bwlimit option to set up the speed limit

Techtoucian · 08-27-2009, 01:39 AM

Sorry, that's what I was implying.