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. >>> >> >> > > -- Kurt Yoder Sport & Health network administrator
