> > Anyone can recommend a application for Microsoft Windows to limit the > bandwidth? Looking for something that is as invisible as possible for > the user and only limit the bacula-fd process or port. Freeware or open > source of course.. >
Ideally, from a network architecture point of view, that is where you would do the rate limiting, but it works almost as well when done on the receiving end - you just drop the occasional packet to make the sender think that there is congestion and it lowers the sending speed accordingly. With appropriate QoS rules on the border router of the site where the SD is, you should be able to get the backups using (say) 80% of the idle bandwidth without noticing a thing, especially on a 20mbit connection where the per-packet times are really small. If your border router isn't up to the task or if you really do want to clamp the SD traffic to a fixed rate, you should still be able to just do it on the SD too. James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users