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restore to netware 3.2 very very slow

2000-04-11 13:01:10
Subject: restore to netware 3.2 very very slow
From: david de leeuw <david AT BGUMAIL.BGU.AC DOT IL>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 19:01:10 +0200
Hi ADSM experts

After running ADSM for two years with just incidental restores, we have to
restore a complete Netware 3.2 server from scratch (12 GB disk).

I started this morning and now (11 hours later) about 30 % of the restore
is done.

This seems to be very very slow indeed. The server is AIX, 4.2, ADSM
3.1.2.50, 128 MB, the client a pentium Novell 3.2 with 64 MB. Tape drives
are DLT TZ88.

The tape lights on the tape drives are flashing only every now and
then.

Most of the time the "in use" is steady on. Novell indicates a
light load on the processor.

The network is state-of-the art switched (10 MB/s).

The tapes are set to compression. We have "compression off" at the
client but the older backups might have beeen done with compression on.
(Running backups is much much faster)

I can't figure out why this restore takes forever.

Any ideas ?

David
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