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geekinthesticks
Joined: 29 Mar 2009
Posts: 19
Location: England
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| Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: Bandwidth Friendly File Transfer |
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I have about 7.5G of files in an iBackup account that I want to transfer to my Linode. I could just rsync them. However, this doesn't seem very friendly to other users on my server:) I don't really care if they take several days to transfer, so is there a way to limit the speed of the transfer?
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zibeli
Joined: 25 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: Re: Bandwidth Friendly File Transfer |
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geekinthesticks wrote: ... is there a way to limit the speed of the transfer?
you could try the rsync --bwlimit=KBPS option (man rsync) |
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hoopycat
Joined: 30 Aug 2008
Posts: 1137
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| Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 10:37 am Post subject: |
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Alternatively, don't sweat it and let it rip. :-) The pipes are plenty big, and the limiting factor will probably be on iBackup's end (a per-download "safety cap"). Even if you do manage to saturate the 1 gigabit/second links on either end, 7.5GB will take about ~75 seconds to transfer.
Big file transfers are like ripping duct tape off of a wound: just go for it and it'll hurt less. -rt |
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