On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 01:33, Paul Hutchings <paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk> wrote: > You've mentioned that backups are slow, but not how you're doing the backups?
We use Ultrabac, and do a d2d2t > Where I would start along with things like perfmon is with a simple, straight > multi-threaded file copy - see how much you can actually send over the LAN > from the source file server to a variety of destinations. > > For example if you're on gig ethernet end to end and you're consistently able > to get 100MB/Sec (for example) doing a multi-threaded robocopy then I think > you can reasonably safely say your problem is with tuning the backup software. I think a robocopy of data to the backup server will be sufficient to judge in this case. Given the PAL output, it's likely a machine issue. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin