On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 10:20pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > > We're talking about network bandwidth -- ethernet. And the parameter is > > there in case your backup server and/or clients perform other network > > intensive functions that you don't want to interfere with. Myself, I > > consider backups most important and want amanda to use all the bandwidth > > it can. > > Yes and therefore a netuse value of "max" would be appropriate. I > understand from what you say that the lower the bandwidth the slower the > backup, but why does it make a full stop right before the backup > finishes? Well, it is probably more an academic question. I would, > however, like to get the answer but I will not read the code to get > it :-)
Amanda doesn't actually throttle the backups. It looks at how much bandwidth is being used (based on history and backups speeds IIRC, which I may well not), and will refuse to start a new backup if the usage is > netusage. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
