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How to set rsync speed limit from eating all bandwidth with bwlimit option

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Feb 27, 2017

The rsync command is eating all my bandwidth from a backup script and generating tons of I/O. How do I set a limit for file transfer speed of rsync command on Linux or Unix-like system? How can I keep my rsync script from using all of my bandwidth?

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