>The Bandwith I put in the amanda config is 5000 kbitsec ...
The bandwidth number in Amanda has very little to do with how fast it
will actually transfer data (which is confusing, to put it mildly :-).
When Amanda estimates how large each dump is, it also looks at how fast
they ran in the past and estimates how much bandwidth this dump will take.
When driver is deciding on whether to start a new dump, it compares the
estimated bandwidth plus the estimated bandwidths of all running dumps
on the same "interface" (another confusing term) and will not start the
dump if it would exceed the bandwidth number you've entered.
But once a given dump starts, Amanda goes as fast as it can and lets
the OS and hardware do any flow control.
Think of the interfaces and bandwidth as another limiting factor to
starting a new dump, just like holding disks and the space they have
allocated.
>Olivier Collet
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
