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Recipe 16.10. Limiting rsync's Bandwidth Requirements16.10.1 Problemrsync can gobble up your bandwidth in nothing flat; imagine backing up a few gigabytes of ripped audio files on a busy network. What's an easy way to restrict it, without implementing full-blown traffic shaping? 16.10.2 SolutionUse the bwlimit option: $ rsync -a bwlimit=256 rsync.test.net::testnetftp/ /ftp/mirror 16.10.3 Discussionbwlimit uses kilobytes per second, so be sure to take this into account when you're calculating what value to use. Remember that most network speeds are measured in kilobits, which are one-eighth the size of kilobytes. 16.10.4 See Also
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