Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 14:55:28 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU> To: Nathan Ahlstrom <nrahlstr@winternet.com> Cc: Joe Gleason <clash@tasam.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: limited pipe Message-ID: <199906151855.AA175712928@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:49:04 CDT." <19990613204904.A14095@winternet.com>
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>> Does anyone know of a program that will pipe from stdin to stdout but at >> specified rate? >> >> This is for sending backups over the network at a limited rate without >> relying on dummynet. > >I seem to recall that the amanda backup programs has provisions for doing >this built into it. You may want to look into that. >http://www.amanda.org/ No, this is incorrect. You are presumably thinking of Amanda's "netusage" parameter, but this is only used by the scheduler as it's deciding how many dumps to run concurrently (from all backup clients combined). Once a dump is started it runs as fast as it can. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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