Wishlist: Add support for nocache
Bug #1344528 reported by
Peter Gunn
This bug affects 2 people
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Back In Time |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Germar |
Bug Description
Please consider adding support for the nocache utility to minimize filesystem cache pollution from rsync and cp. Without this large rsync operations can trash the current filesystem cache and reduce responsiveness of the entire system.
For rsync and cp it could be used as a prefix command similar to ionice and nice. e.g. 'nocache rsync' and 'nocache cp'.
Another possibility (that I havent tried) for rsync might be be to use --rsync-
I'm not sure if prefixing backintime with nocache would be inherited by child processes.
Thanks
-PG
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status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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--rsync- path='nocache rsync' is only relevant for remote host.