Krahn,

The 'interface' section in amanda.conf is one of the most frequently 
misunderstood parts of Amanda configuration. The name is quite misleading, 
and almost never means what people think it should.

First of all, I should start by saying that Amanda does nothing to restrict 
the speed, bandwidth, or routing of a particular dump -- all dumps, once 
started, run at full speed. How and how quickly your packets are routed 
should be controlled in-kernel using policy routing and QoS.

All the interface section in amanda.conf does is limit the starting of new 
dumps, so that for example only one dump at a time will run over a given 
network connection.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

--Ian Turner

On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:12:24 Krahn, Anderson wrote:
> How is it possible in Amanda to ensure the best network usuage?
>
> For instance I have 2 interfaces on for qa and prd both are 100MB full.
> However there are times by watching snmp graphs that our interefaces are
> not fully used in fact they have peaked at 70megabits per sec. Is there
> a way to tell Amanda to use the full pipe?
>
> Thanks
>
> Here are my current settings
>
> netusage  10000000 Kbps
>
>
>
> define interface bge2 {
>
>     comment "100 Mbps ethernet"
>
>     use 900000 kbps
>
> }
>
> define interface bge3 {
>
>     comment "100 Mbps ethernet"
>
>     use 900000 kbps
>
> }
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