On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Joe Rhett wrote: > FYI, dumper appears to break the backup into 1gb chunks? I don't know if > this is relevant or not.
You mean on the holding disk? That's normal but you can configure the chunksize or turn it off if you wish. > > I'm seeing EXTREMELY slow backups of a moderately-sized file system on a > > FreeBSD host. I'm a little confused by this, as everything appears to be > > working .. it's just REALLY slow... The most common cause of this is a network duplex mismatch somewhere. Often between the host and the switch. Note that full<--->auto IS a mismatch. If one side is locked to full, the other side must be locked, too. -Mitch
