Ruby Net/SFTP throttle speed

Question

Is there a way to throttle the connection of a transfer with the ruby Net/SFTP library? I would like to leverage this to download some backups on a nightly basis, but don't want to eat up all of the server's bandwidth while doing so.

@theTinMan only thing that I had come to was doing QOS on **all** ssh connections, which didn't do what I wanted. — wmarbut, Aug 20 '12 at 19:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 20 '12 at 18:23

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Consider this sample from the Net::SFTP documentation:

# open and read from a pseudo-IO for a remote file
sftp.file.open("/path/to/remote", "r") do |f|
  puts f.gets
end

What would happen if you put a sleep inside that block?

answered Aug 20 '12 at 18:23

the Tin Man

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looks like this does the trick! Thanks, that's an ingenuitive way to do things – wmarbut Aug 20 '12 at 19:25

Ruby Net/SFTP throttle speed

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