# Limit xtrabackup bandwidth when taking full backup

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**Category:** Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.x\
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**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/limit-xtrabackup-bandwidth-when-taking-full-backup/25351 "2023-09-21T16:05:28Z")\
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Hi, how can I limit transfer to s3 on daily full backups? I saw the parameter should be --throttle 1 for 10Mb transfer, but I’m not sure where should I configure it?  
I could only find instructions to enable compression:

```auto
pxc:
  image: percona/percona-xtradb-cluster:8.0.19-10.1
  configuration: |
    ...
    [sst]
    xbstream-opts=--decompress
    [xtrabackup]
    compress=lz4
    ...

```

Is this the place to add throttle=1? Also I was wondering if enabling compression would increase CPU usage on SST trasfrers?

Thank you