Backuping 1.8TB, need to limit bandwith.

[86ivar]

Hi!

I need to backup about 1.8 TB of data over internet, from B2 to a NAS at my parents home.
Problem is that the network my B2 is on has a 20GB per 24 Hr limit, anything over will get banned from the network.

Can I make a bakup script with a bandwidth limit?
Also I thought about making a torrent out of the whole thing and download it. Is that possible through SSH for instance?? I think that would be the best so nothing gets corrupted if the power goes out!

[Ubi]

Can you send a hard disk over the post?

I know this is not what you're looking for, but backup op 2TB over a DSL is going to take forever, no matter how you slice it.

if you really want to copy, rsync is your friend. It has a --bwlimit option, although this not always works as expected

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1006 ... ot-working

[Gordon]

Code: Select all

man tc

Or simply check out this page

[Ubi]

Does tc work better than trickle?

[Gordon]

Don't know. Never had any use for this. But tc is already installed on the B2/3 (it's part of the iproute2 package) so it's the logical first choice.

[Ubi]

Fair enough. Trickle is a little easier i think? I never got tc to work without reading the manual

[Gordon]

Fair enough. Trickle is a little easier i think? I never got tc to work without reading the manual

I guess the script on the page I linked before would allow people to cheat themselves around that issue