> [!BaseBackupThrottle] > <table><tr><td rowspan="4" width="25%"><img src="assets/wl_timeout_basebackupthrottle.png"></td><td><b>Wait Category</b></td><td>Timeout</td></tr><tr><td><b>Mechanism</b></td><td><code>BaseBackupThrottle</code></td></tr><tr><td><b>Operations</b></td><td><a href="Operations/ResultSet/Materialize">Materialize</a></td></tr><tr><td><b>Resources</b></td><td><a href="Resources/disk IO">disk IO</a>, <a href="Resources/CPU">CPU</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><b>Intentional I/O Governor</b>. To prevent a massive backup operation from saturating the disk bandwidth and starving the primary production workload, Postgres allows the operator to enforce a maximum transfer rate.</td></tr></table>