Re: Slow copy

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

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.
>
> Part of my ad hoc backup system is to copy the nightly backup tar file from 
> our production machine onto another machine. The problem is that the 
> production machine is not exactly what you would call high performance and 
> the file copy basically causes everything else to grind to a halt. It doesn't 
> matter to me that the copy is done in 5 minutes or 50 minutes what matters is 
> that it doesn't kill the server for 5 minutes a day.
>
> 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.

Can't you run the copy from nice to a very low scheduling priority?

H