Balanced network usage with bandwidth throttling for backups
While backing up the data, bandwidth plays a vital role. Unmonitored or uncontrolled automated backups over a network can lead to over-utilization of available connections which can slow internet speeds and cause network overloading, usage overages, impact day-to-day business operations, or degrade the performance of enterprise systems.
There are several ways to achieve balanced network usage without compromising on data backups but one of the more effective and straightforward solutions you could adopt immediately could be Bandwidth Throttling
There are several ways to counter these impacts and achieve balanced network usage without compromising on data backups. You could temporarily slow down high-bandwidth users during periods of heavy congestion, set up more frequent backups only for mission-critical systems, avoid backups during non-business hours, or provision exclusive bandwidth only for backup and recovery activities. Most of these solutions, however, require constant monitoring and attention. One of the more effective and straightforward solutions you could adopt immediately could be Bandwidth Throttling.
Bandwidth Throttling in backup solutions
How does bandwidth throttling work?
Bandwidth Throttling in backup solutions like BluVault lets you set the bandwidth limit for your backup activities. This lets backups take no more than a fixed portion of available network bandwidth, leaving the rest for other business and production purposes.
How to enable Bandwidth Throttling for backup in BluVault?
Now, for the users who are mapped to this policy, the bandwidth usage gets automatically limited to the value specified in the Network Throttle Setting.
Network throttling is a handy way to prevent backups from creating noticeable negative impact on users, networks and system performance. But Network throttling only slows backups down and spreads them out over a longer time period. There are other built-in mechanisms in Parablu’s BluVault which can actually reduce payload – like software compression and de-duplication. To learn more about such features and explore, get in touch with our team. We’d love to hear from you!