Is there a way to tap/modify the underlying mysqldump command?

[fredbradley]

I'm finding that the backup process is filling my CPU (we have an 8GB database). Is there a way with this package to change the underlying backup command?

I have installed nice which will allow me to give the backup process a lower priority which should then mean that the rest of the web server isn't as affected during the back up process.

But that means that I essentially need to find wherever this package eventually called mysqldump... and change it to nice -n 10 mysqldump...

Possible? Or other suggestions?