On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 8:32pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote

> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 12:14 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 at 6:01pm, Erik P. Olsen wrote
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:50 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> > > > I Have had a back-up active since 1 o'clock (this night). When I issue
> > > > amstatus I can see that it is still active although apparently doing
> > > > nothing. It reports one dumper busy with "no-bandwidth". What ican my
> > > > problem be and what is this "no-bandwidth"?
> > > 
> > > I am still puzzled by the "no-bandwidth" report. I do not use network
> > > backup so I believe I have oodles of bandwidth. Does amanda have a bug
> > > reporting system that I could search for possible bugs in this area?
> > 
> > What is 'netusage' set to in your amanda.conf?
> 
> It's set to 600 kbps, standard I suppose and with no other activity in
> the system that should be adequate. And I don't see how that can become
> "no-bandwidth" at worst it should only slow down the backup speed - or
> have I misunderstood something?

Amanda will refuse to start new backups if it "sees" itself using more 
than 'netusage' amount of bandwidth.  It doesn't actually do any real-time 
measuring.  In fact, I'm not sure *exactly* how it calculates it, but I 
think it's based on dumprate.  In any case, 600 kbps is *tiny*.  I just 
crank it up to the supposed interface speed and let amanda have at it.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University