Maybe. If you can, try backing up the filesystems directly instead
of via nfs and see if this makes a difference.

Ashwin Bijur said:
> But we are using hardware compression.  A majority of the
> filesystem,
> however, is nfs mounted.  Will that slow down the backups?
>
> Kurt Yoder wrote:
>
>>If you're using software/gzip compression, it slows it down below
>>the bandwidth of a 100 Mbps network.
>>
>>Ashwin Bijur said:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am using amanda 2.4.4 and the amanda host (running RedHat 9) has
>>> a
>>>gigabit connection to the network. Yet it seems to utilize only a
>>>fraction of the available bandwidth.  How do I force it to run at
>>>100%
>>>capacity?  Here are the statistics from my last backup and below
>>> you
>>>can
>>>see my amanda.conf file.  Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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Sport & Health network administrator