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 -- Q: What is the difference between open-source and commercial software? A: If you have a problem with commercial software you can call a phone number and they will tell you it might be solved in a future version. For open-source sofware there isn't a phone number to call, but you get the solution within a day. www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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