From 5cc0592bad59b6f6d978b768924849be33a2145c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: root <empty>
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 00:19:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Take backup at lowest possible (non-idle) CPU priority, and
 idle I/O priority.

---
 backup.sh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/backup.sh b/backup.sh
index 75c0308..67a9e1e 100755
--- a/backup.sh
+++ b/backup.sh
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ backup()
  #    Pipe the stuff over ssh to ourselves, run pee to cat the contents to a
  #    file and build a file list, respectivly.  
  TARFILE=$DATE.tmp
- TARCMD="ssh root@$computer \"tar --one-file-system -zcf - -C $filesystem . $lastcmd \
+ TARCMD="ssh root@$computer \"nice -n 19 ionice -c3 tar --one-file-system -zcf - -C $filesystem . $lastcmd \
 	--exclude-from=$exf\" | pee \"cat > $TARFILE\" \"tar tzvf -\""
  echo `date`" $computer: Running $TARCMD" >&2
  eval $TARCMD > $DATE.idx
-- 
2.39.2