> The slow client is a Toshiba Magna 3000 with a single 18-GB SCSI disk. I am
> backing up another partition on the same disk on the same host at the same ti
>me with no problems. I do not see any disk or network errors on either the cl
>ient or the tape backup
> server.
The next thing I'd try is doing the backup command by hand on the
client and watching closely what happens. If you're using GNU tar,
I just posted yet another dissertation on how to do this. Look for the
"Problem backing up" thread.
If you're using dump, just run the command from sendbackup*debug but
without the 'u' option. Doing a catalogue is not as useful in this case
because of the way dump images are formatted. Better would be to write
it to a file and see how fast it's growing, although I realize that might
need more scratch disk space than you have. Next better would be to pipe
the output to an rsh over to your tape server and drop it in your holding
disk (assuming it's big enough), although that introduces other variables.
Or you could try piping the output to the attached C program (and then
to /dev/null). I just slapped it together, but it seems to give a rough
idea of how much output has been generated in more or less real time.
> Erick Bodine
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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