I installed some new Dell gigabit switches about a month ago. My performance on backing up server has actually gotten worse. It's a server with about 650 GB. It runs Windows 2003 and has gigabit netw
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:52:06 -0600
Are you sure the teamed NIC setup matches on the switch and server? It's not likely that you'll ever exceed 1 gig throughput with backuppc anyway. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com -- Thro
What do you mean by matches? Throughput for this server is generally below average. Some of my older workstations can get 4 MB/sec. This server is often less than 2 MB/sec. However, it did get 11 MB
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:54:16 -0600
Teamed NICs need to be configured at both host and switch ends and at least on the linux side there are options for how the balancing/failover works. You could try just using one to see if things get
Am Samstag, den 23.01.2010, 11:54 -0600 schrieb Les Mikesell: or something like that ? linuxpc: # mii-tool eth0 eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok -- Throughout its 18-year history,
Add a -v for more information: eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok product info: vendor 00:50:ef, model 14 rev 0 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
Author: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:10:13 -0600
Mii-tool doesn't really understand gig NICs - use ethtool instead. But the real evidence of problems is in errors in the ifconfig display or the counters on the switch ports. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes
Unless you need the "teamed" NICs for some other reason besides your backups, it doesn't seem like you should even bother with it. Because even at 4MB/second, that is still only 32 Mbit/sec, which a
I have decided to try a direct Ethernet connection between the server and the backuppc machine. I will see what happens. I added a line to the hosts file to make sure that backuppc uses that connecti