diff --git a/systemd/system/remote-backup.service b/systemd/system/remote-backup.service
index b2801e7..31483bb 100644
--- a/systemd/system/remote-backup.service
+++ b/systemd/system/remote-backup.service
@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ Description=Perform remote backup
 CapabilityBoundingSet=
 CPUSchedulingPolicy=batch
 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/remote-backup
+IOSchedulingPriority=7
 LockPersonality=true
 MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
+Nice=19
 NoNewPrivileges=true
 PrivateDevices=true
 PrivateIPC=true