Comment 6 for bug 1220396

Not a lot different unless you have other cron jobs running. They could
keep it from finishing on time, but thats about it.

Will have to investigate how other backups handle this. Can't really think
of a downside.

On Sunday, March 13, 2016, Thomas Guettler <email address hidden>
wrote:

> > *duplicity* is made to be run off-hours with a cron job while users
> are not on the system.".
>
> What happens if duplicity runs with maximum nice+ionice during off-hours
> while users are not on the system?
>
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> Title:
> should set nice level
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> Bug description:
> If I run a backup, the whole system is slow. I think the backup
> process should set a nice level (and ionice), since it is a background
> job. The interactive processes (terminal, webbrowser ...) should not
> be slowed down by the backup process.
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