I know you probably checked this, but we just had a problem like this - slow backup, long idletimes. It was on Netware, but I have also seen it on AIX. Our problem was a mismatch in duplex - the switch thought it was half, and the box thought it was full. Try doing an FTP between the AIX box and the TSM box, and see what your throughput it.
Andy Carlson |\ _,,,---,,_ Senior Technical Specialist ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ BJC Health Care |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' St. Louis, Missouri '---''(_/--' `-'\_) Cat Pics: http://andyc.dyndns.org/animal.html On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, George Lesho wrote: > TSMers: > All AIX 433 TSM 4.1.4.5 server 4.1.3 client > > I put together a script to do a full archive of our production servers and > am testing currently on a development box/client. The intent of the script > is to archive all JFS file systems less the root FS. > > #!/bin/ksh > > chmod 755 /tmp/FS > > /tmp/FS > > df -k | grep "/dev" | egrep -v "hd4" | awk '{print $7}' > /tmp/FS > > cat /tmp/FS | > > while > read -r SLICE > do > > dsmc archive -archmc=14periods -subdir=yes -quiet "${SLICE}/" > done > __________________ > These are my actual file systems & the output of the file "FS" created > above; results are as expected: > > dev: /usr/local/bin-> df > Filesystem 512-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on > /dev/hd4 32768 7912 76% 2016 25% / > /dev/hd2 3211264 748848 77% 36615 10% /usr > /dev/hd9var 344064 197880 43% 535 2% /var > /dev/hd3 1671168 322912 81% 585 1% /tmp > /dev/hd1 2048000 518256 75% 16058 7% /home > /dev/local 819200 341048 59% 5261 5% /usr/local > /dev/informix 1015808 354704 66% 2109 2% /usr/informix > /dev/afc 1310720 666480 50% 1969 2% /afc > /dev/bmc 557056 93392 84% 827 2% /usr/bmc > /dev/maestrolv 393216 131616 67% 4314 9% /usr/lpp/maestro > /dev/webapps 786432 573184 28% 820 1% /webapps > /dev/psoft 1966080 1457584 26% 702 1% /usr/psoft > /dev/hr751 2097152 1686632 20% 4081 2% /usr/psoft/hr751 > > > dev: /tmp-> cat FS > /usr > /var > /tmp > /home > /usr/local > /usr/informix > /afc > /usr/bmc > /usr/lpp/maestro > /webapps > /usr/psoft > /usr/psoft/hr751 > > Problem is, I have only archived about 1.3 gigs in 3 hours and I checked > the network and ethernet interfaces and there are no significant errors. > This performance is miserable... noticed while monitoring the session from > the server that there are very high idle times; nothing else going on on > the server (no processes). Any help/hints would be appreciated! > > George Lesho > System/Storage Admin > AFC Enterprises >
