[Nottingham] Slow copy

[Tom Allender]

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 15:19, Roger Light wrote:

> One of my work machines has an nfs mount which I'd like to copy onto
> the local disk. It's rather large though - the order of 10GB. Whilst I
> could do the copy over a weekend or so, I'd be interested if anyone
> has a method for bandwidth throttled copying so that it could copy and
> not really impact network performance. 

'rsync' can copy files and directories at a limited rate of KB/s.

 rsync -av --bwlimit=50 /nfs/directory /home/destination

This will copy the /nfs/directory to /home/destination/directory at
50KB/s max.

HTH,
Tom.