On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 10:53:03PM +0200, Hans-Christian Armingeon wrote:
> Hi,
> how to tell amanda, that it can use as much bandwith as possible?
> 
> I have "netusage  125000" in my amanda.conf. This should saturate a 1GB link, 
> but amanda is still quite slow.

To my knowledge, there is no "throttle" in amanda.
The netusage parameter only affects whether or not to
start a client dump.  Once started, the dump uses all
the bandwidth it can, no restraints in the amanda code.

Look into aspects other than netusage for performance problems.

> 
> I've got some other questions:
> 
> how to stop a running amdump?
> 

I use kill and amcleanup.

> retriving a one year old file? I know, there was a theead some time ago, but 
> I can't find it anymore.

How does that differ from a one day, week, or month old file?

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