Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 03:12:02PM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote:
> Le 09/03/2012 00:46, Rob Owens a écrit :
> >On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 09:53:31AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> [...]
>
> >>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
>
Thanks for that. I didn't know it existed.
-Rob
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