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Ssh - Nice Rsync on Remote Machine

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ssh - Nice rsync on remote machine - Server Fault

You can use the –rsync-path option, eg.

rsync –rsync-path=“nice rsync” foo remotebox:/tmp/

https://serverfault.com/questions/55560/nice-rsync-on-remote-machine

You might consider using ionice as well, e.g. –rsync-path=“ionice -c 3 nice rsync”, though modern Linuxes automatically reduce the IO priority for nice’d processes (see the man page I linked)

https://serverfault.com/questions/55560/nice-rsync-on-remote-machine