> Make sure your network settings are correct. I have had bandwidth >problems with our network switch (cisco 6509) with auto negotiation so I had >the network guys force the port the 100 full duplex on the switch and set >the client to the same setting. Then the bandwidth problems went away, and >the client backed up normally.
--------------------- >I ran into a similar problem a while back where a W2K system had the Fibre >Channel and Fast Ethernet sharing the same interrupt. > >Backup was the most demanding workload the node saw, so the problem only >manifested during backup. > >In our case, the server admin swapped the onboard and add-in network card >IP addresses, and the problem went away. > >Unlikely I know, but may be worth checking if you're exhausted the other >possibilities. Those postings are good suggestions, based upon real experiences. Alas, the case cited is not in a network phase: it is plowing through the file system looking for candidate objects. The poster indicates having gone through our list of common causes for slow backups, and not having found a match based upon his analysis; so we'll have to await the results from his client trace or other analyses. Richard Sims http://people.bu.edu/rbs
