Kris Vassallo wrote:

The disks in the venus box are all SATA 150 drives, SCSI is way out of the price range for this amount of space. If venus is the machine that is taking forever to do the estimates, is it possible that 1. estimates start on all machines, 2. the estimates finish on the smaller remote file systems first; these systems begin to dump. 3. now along with the backup server trying to do an estimate on its own disks, its also dealing with a dump coming in from remote systems and all of this together is slowing it down? Do I have any valid ideas here?

Is there an option to change that?