From: "hannah commodore" <hannah@tinfoilhat.net>

On 1 Apr 2014, at 09:30, Peter Ross <Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au> wrote:

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Hi all,

I am using "throttle" for snapshot backups. It is a small utility reading from stdin and writing to stdout and used to limit the speed (to avoid "hammering" of disks and networks)

E.g. "throttle -1M" reads 1 MByte/sec.

pipeviewer (pv) has a rate-limit option as well: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

Though it's primary function is to show how fast the pipe is moving data

The page has FreeBSD support listed in FreshPorts

Yes, it's in the ports:-) Thanks, that will do. Peter