On Feb 16, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > This might be the kind of thing you’re looking for: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.fullnat.intro.html <http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.cookbook.fullnat.intro.html> -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/>
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