On Wed, 2021-05-12 at 13:01 +0200, Eric L. Zolf wrote: ... > > There is no real way to improve the situation, rdiff-backup goes as > fast > as it can and I personally don't know an I/O-equivalent of "nice" > (and > if you limit the I/O, the backup will be even slower).
The I/O equivalent of "nice" is "ionice" and you probably want to set it to the "idle" class, i.e. "ionice -c idle rdiff-backup ..." This will run when other activities are not doing I/O, and yes it will run slower, on a system that is doing other I/O tasks. Regards Frank
