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Hello,

I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on
his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web
surfing.

He wonders whether there is a way of setting some kind of low priority on the
bacula file daemon so that the Windows computer can be used whilst the backup
is happening. Something like the linux 'nice' command, perhaps?


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On 10.3.2010 11:36, Graham Keeling wrote:
Hello,

I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on
his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web
surfing.

He wonders whether there is a way of setting some kind of low priority on the
bacula file daemon so that the Windows computer can be used whilst the backup
is happening. Something like the linux 'nice' command, perhaps?



If the user has Admin privileges, he/she can set the priority by using
task manager. In the process list there should be bacula-fd.exe, and it
allows setting the priority from mouse right click.

Bacula probably itself does not allow setting the priority by some
configurable setting.

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:38:27PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
On 10.3.2010 11:36, Graham Keeling wrote:
Hello,

I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on
his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web
surfing.

He wonders whether there is a way of setting some kind of low priority on the
bacula file daemon so that the Windows computer can be used whilst the backup
is happening. Something like the linux 'nice' command, perhaps?



If the user has Admin privileges, he/she can set the priority by using
task manager. In the process list there should be bacula-fd.exe, and it
allows setting the priority from mouse right click.

Thank you very much for that. I shall tell the user and see how he gets on.


Bacula probably itself does not allow setting the priority by some
configurable setting.


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