On Sunday 11 May 2003 07:11 pm, Chris De Young wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In most people's expierience, does the "netusage" parameter in
> Amanda's configuration file work as advertised?  I'm trying to do
> backups over a slow link (DSL), and while I don't really care if 
they
> take 20 hours, I care more if they render the connection largely
> unusable while they're running.
> 
> I've set "netusage" to 6 for testing, which should be about 48k 
(bits)
> out of about 270k available, but Amanda still blasts away as fast as
> the line will allow -- and the emailed report seems to confirm this,
> reporting "Avg Dump Rate (k/s)" of about 27.
> 
> Am I missing some other parameter that needs to be setin conjunction
> with "netusage", or is it just broken, or...?

The netusage value only tell amanda to stop forking dumpers if usage 
exceeds the limit.  It does not actually casue amanda to restrict 
bandwidth usage.  That is what it is advertised as doing and, AFAIK, 
it works correctly.

> Amanda version is 2.4.3.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Chris
> 
> 

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