Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --sleep-ratio

[Robert Loomans]

> It wasn't obvious where to put little checks to see if rdiff-backup
> should halt.  Also it made the code clunkier.

> I'm sure the feature would help some people but inside rdiff-backup
> didn't seem to be the place to put it.  Ideally the OS would do this:
> OS is supposed to limit access to resources.  Or perhaps you could
> write a script to send stop and continue signals to a running
> rdiff-backup process.  Either way this might work not just with
> rdiff-backup but any other disk-intensive process you might have.

How 'bout a local version of the rdiff-backup --server with cstream
in between?

That is, run the backup gathering and backup writing in two seperate
processes and plug cstream in between to limit the bandwidth used.

Rob

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