on 2/6/2008 3:33 PM Dan Carl spake the following: > What's the best way to do this? > > Daily, jpg images are added to an inhouse server. > Everynight I want to backup these images to a server offsite, via rsync. > What I want is to determine what to set the bwlimit to. > I also want to estimate how many MB's of images I can move nightly. > Thanks > Dan If you need the bandwidth for other purposes at night you could set the bwlimit to half to three quarters of the available bandwidth, and the rest will be available for other uses like dns servers and such. Using compression ( the -z option) probably won't help with jpg's. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080206/9474e5d3/attachment-0005.sig>