[CentOS] Command line tool to test bandwidth between 2 servers

Wed Feb 6 23:48:20 UTC 2008
Barry Brimer <lists at brimer.org>

Quoting Dan Carl <danc at bluestarshows.com>:

> What's the best way to do this?
>
> Daily, jpg images are added to an inhouse server.
> Everynight I want to backup these images to a server offsite, via rsync.
> What I want is to determine what to set the bwlimit to.
> I also want to estimate how many MB's of images I can move nightly.
> Thanks
> Dan

iperf <http://dast.nlanr.net/Projects/Iperf/> .. also available from rpmforge
<http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/iperf/>