[Box Backup] Observations on Win32 client

[Mr R G Shepherd]

Jamie Neil wrote:
> 6) From our testing, boxbackup seems to be able to saturate even fat 
> pipes, which can cause problems when backups are done during the day. 
> Some kind of scheduled bandwidth throttling would be invaluable (I know 
> this could probably be done with another program in true *nix tradition, 
> but in Windows environments this is not so simple).
> 

I know this may be entirely not what you are looking for, however

I plan to use IPCop's built in traffic shaping to throttle the traffic on the 
bbackup ports.

http://www.ipcop.org is a standalone linux firewall appliance distribution. very 
stable, maintained and has usb adsl drivers!

Rob