[Nottingham] Slow copy

[Tom Bird]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Roger Light wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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. I'll admit it's mostly because I'm
> just curious as to whether it's possible, but that's no real sin :)

rsync -avPe ssh --bwlimit <kbytes/second> host:directory .

or something like that.  I've not checked the syntax there but i quite
often use rsync for trickling things out of the adsl without totally
making it die (talking about >2 second pings when its going full pelt
outbound).

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Tom  [www.hambule.co.uk] [tom@hambule.co.uk]