From 988e452bc0796b941b33f9af79a300e5f9fcca74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marian Beermann Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:13:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] faq: mention --remote-ratelimit in bandwidth limit question --- docs/faq.rst | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index a56c87c34..48596066e 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -441,8 +441,12 @@ If the directory where you mount a filesystem is different every time, Is there a way to limit bandwidth with |project_name|? ------------------------------------------------------ -There is no command line option to limit bandwidth with |project_name|, but -bandwidth limiting can be accomplished with pipeviewer_: +To limit upload (i.e. :ref:`borg_create`) bandwidth, use the +``--remote-ratelimit`` option. + +There is no built-in way to limit *download* +(i.e. :ref:`borg_extract`) bandwidth, but limiting download bandwidth +can be accomplished with pipeviewer_: Create a wrapper script: /usr/local/bin/pv-wrapper ::