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Created January 6, 2015 15:41
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be nice while taking backup of production webapp on linux during business hours
# default nice value seems fine in my case; ionice has no default, using class 3 for idle IO time
ionice -c 3 nice tar ~/the-webapp-20150106.tgz /opt/the-webapp
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