Dave wrote: > Hello Ryan, > Thanks for your reply. I'm not backing up to tape yet, just disk. The > disks on both the server and client are IDE not scsi unfortunately. I'm > using a mysql4 database also installed via freebsd ports. Not sure how > to test drive speed, but i am not spooling, should i be? When a job runs > the windows boxes in particular slow to a crawl so i don't use them if > i'm up at that point, the jobs run at night.
Sounds like the performance bottleneck is on the Windows clients (something that shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone). Using the monitoring utilities provided with Windows, you should be able to tell whether it's CPU-bound or I/O-bound. -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users