Excessively slow backups?

2007-07-25 Thread Josh Kelley
About a month ago, our backups went from taking ~8 hours to taking 16-24 hours or more. During this time, two specific shares on one of our servers, alva, started giving data timeout errors (e.g., alva /home lev 4 FAILED [data timeout]). Other shares still backed up fine, even if they were the

slow backups

2001-02-20 Thread Ben Kochie
I've been wrestling with some fairly slow backups for a while now. I have amanda 2.4.2 server, running a dual 733 dell rack server, (256mb ram, UW scsi disk) with a 3com 100mb switch stack. the network is far from saturated. the only thing that gets me are the clients.. I have 3 SGI's

Re: slow backups

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
I've been wrestling with some fairly slow backups for a while now. I have amanda 2.4.2 server, running a dual 733 dell rack server, (256mb ram, UW scsi disk) with a 3com 100mb switch stack. ... The first thing that always pops to mind when 100Mbit is involved is a duplex mismatch. If one