We have encountered extreme slowness when backing up Novell clients.  These
are
4.11/5.0 Novell clients. It now takes up to 10-13 hours for Novell clients
that
are only sending 2-3 gigs of data at most for each client.  Conversely our
NT
clients that have 80-120 gigs are finishing in less than 5 hours.  All
clients
are on dedicated backup segment and communicating via TCP/IP.  We are
running
ADSM 3.1 rel 2.30.  We have approximately 25 Novell clients.  I have
experimented with max session settings,randomization,polling/prompting, as
well
as prioritization settings, and even frame types, half duplex,full duplex on
both client and server.  When we had only one Novell client connected, it
was
extremely fast finishing in less than an hour.  However as number of clients
have been added to backup scheme, bottleneck has increased as well.  The
only
solution I have found it to stagger jobs (one group kicks off at 8:00Pm, one
group at 9:00etc).  I have seen in some posts that ADSM handles Novell
clients
somewhat slower than NT,Unix,etc. Any additional suggestions appriciated.

Thanks,
Jeff