Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

[Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocellin@nuagelibre.org>]

Le 09/03/2012 00:46, Rob Owens a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:53:31AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
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> > I don't know what BackupPC does internally, but I would just
> > use rsync over ssh, with appropriate options. It ought to be pretty
> > robust
> I have BackupPC configured to use rsync over ssh.  It works well, but
> its main problems are:
>
> 1)  It typically maxes out my internet connection.  Plain old rsync
> would do this too, unless there is a throttling option that I don't know
> about.  Rtorrent, which I use, has a throttling option.

Of course rsync has a throttling option :
Read the rsync's man :

--bwlimit=KBPS          limit I/O bandwidth; KBytes per second

You can tell backuppc to use additional rsync options.

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