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Adrien Dorsaz · Wednesday, 26 February, 2020 - 21:32

I've just discovered how to do well backup on Linux: with nice, ionice and nocache. The two first avoid to decrease performance of other processes and the last one avoid to fill Linux file cache with useless files. Very nice ! (and yes, I'm 8 years late on this question ^^).