I don't think amanda actually throttles backups. That value is just used to
determine how many backups to kick off at a time. If you want to try some
cool traffic-shaping, look at
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?focus=linux&content=/focus/linux/articl
es/trafshap.html
It shows you how to limit network traffic by source address, port, etc. I
haven't played with it yet, but a really cool project would be to link it to
amanda's bandwidth configuration information. We do backups of customer
servers over slow WAN lines, so we'd like to use it so large backups that
don't complete overnight won't choke the DSL connection for end-users during
the day.
Carey
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Fulton
> Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 5:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Bandwidth throttling..
>
>
> I'm running Amanda 2.4.2 p1, and I'm having difficulting with the
> "netusage"
> command.. I want to throttle the bandwidth Amanda uses so it does not skew
> our accounting for what machine uses how much bandwidth. But everytime
> Amanda runs, it uses around 4 megabits, regardless of what
> "netusage" is set
> to..
>
> Can anyone suggest anything or an alternative to limiting
> Amanda's bandwidth
> usage?
>
> Steve.
>
>
>
