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Re: Slow copy



On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:42:18PM +0000, Graham Smith wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| This is perhaps one of the stranger questions to be asked but I'm looking for 
| a utility that will copy a file slowly.
[...] 
| What I am basically looking for is a version of cp with a max copy rate 
| argument. I would write my own but I can't believe that I'm the only one who 
| has ever wanted this feature so I suspect there is one already in existence.

I have wanted this every time I had to try and salvage data from flaky
hardware.  Running cp or scp or rsync at full-speed would lock up the
system.  I'm not aware of any solution, though, short of creating a
new program or modifying cp.

-D

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