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Throttle schedules and network bandwidth

A throttle schedule enables you to configure periods of unlimited, limited, or zero network bandwidth availability for your data backup or mirror operations.

During times of heavy general network usage, you might want to limit the network bandwidth used by your backup or mirror operations. Conversely, during times of light network usage, you might want to leave unlimited bandwidth available for your protection operations.

If you want to stop all backup or mirror activity over a connection during a time period, use the throttle schedule to assign zero availability to a backup or mirror connection during that period. During a period of zero availability no backup or mirror operations can start and all backup or mirror operations in progress when that period began are aborted and restarted at the end of the period of zero availability.

Note: Backup or mirror operations that are in progress when a new period of limited bandwidth begins continue to completion using their original bandwidth allotment. Backup or mirror operations that start during a period of limited bandwidth allotment execute using that bandwidth limit.
Note: When the NetApp Management Console data protection capability executes a mirror operation that consists of multiple simultaneous data transfers, the NetApp Management Console data protection capability divides the total bandwidth allotted to this operation and distributes it equally to each transfer.