On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Joe Rhett wrote:

> FYI, dumper appears to break the backup into 1gb chunks?  I don't know if
> this is relevant or not.

You mean on the holding disk?  That's normal but you can configure the
chunksize or turn it off if you wish.

> > I'm seeing EXTREMELY slow backups of a moderately-sized file system on a
> > FreeBSD host.  I'm a little confused by this, as everything appears to be
> > working .. it's just REALLY slow...

The most common cause of this is a network duplex mismatch somewhere.
Often between the host and the switch.  Note that full<--->auto IS a
mismatch.  If one side is locked to full, the other side must be locked,
too.

-Mitch