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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I am trying to rsync to an external drive on a running system; however, it is causing the processor to spike and bring down the webserver.<div><br></div><div>I tried</div><div>#> ionice -c3 -n19 rsync -vhr /dir/* /external/backup/ </div><div><br></div><div>but it still spikes the processor?</div> </div></body>
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