Hi, On 3/2/2007 4:41 PM, Mike Hanby wrote: > Ok, I've finally gotten my XP 64bit system to backup. I still have some > debugging to do to figure out: > a) If the problem is permanently resolved or I just got lucky on my full > backup last night > b) What I did to resolve the issue > > Here are the steps that I ran through just prior to getting the backup to > work: > 1) I tried setting the Maximum Network Buffer Size = 32768 in the > xpclient-fd.conf file and I still had a problem. The backup would start > copying files immediately, but after about 14 GB's, it would just stop. No > network activity and no hard drive activity. It would stay that way, with > occasional communication between the -sd and -fd for more than 10 hours. > 2) I halved that value and still, no difference. > 3) At this point, I decided to try a different network card. My Asus > A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard has two Gig-e cards, an nVidia nForce4 SLI and > a Marvell Gigabit. > > I had been using the nVidia card up to this point. I changed over to the > Marvel.
I would not be too astonished if it turns out the nVidia network connector was the problem. It wouldn't be the first time... > Before I rebooted, however, I checked my Windows Event Log and > noticed a consistent error whenever the system booted stating that > GearAspiWDM.sys failed to load. I did some digging and found where people > had had trouble with this driver on their 64bit systems. I removed it, > rebooted, restarted the full backup and... > > I averaged 8 MB/s and finished a 91 GB backup in 1 hour 50 minutes. Great! Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
