I've been running an offsite network-hog backup script once a week, which I foolishly put in /etc/cron.weekly.
Further scrutiny reveals that anacron runs cron.weekly in the wee hours of Monday morning; since this script may need a day to send data over a low bandwidth ADSL uplink, this is not a good thing to continue through the workday monday. Does anyone know why anacron is configured this way, or where to change it? Meanwhile, I pulled the job out of cron.weekly and run it from crontab now, starting friday evening at 2200 (10 pm). What I would REALLY like is method like "nice" to prioritize network traffic. The backup uses rsync, which can be throttled with the bwlimit parameter, but I would like rsync to run full throttle when nothing else is using the network, then get out of the way for humans. tc is usable for traffic shaping, but not agile. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
