First thing to do, is elimiate the TSM client.

Pick a large file, at least 100MB, preferably 200-500MB.
FTP it from the client machine to a temp directory on the TSM server
machine.
Ignore the stats from the first run.
FTP it 4 or 5 more times, until you see some consistency in the results.

See if the timings indicate you could do 4 GB in 4 hours.
If not, the problem is in your network somewhere  (maybe at a switch).

(Because of time required to check/update the TSM data base, you will NOT
get TSM to ever run any faster than a simple FTP - for 1 large file, they
should run at about the same speed - TSM maybe 10% slower.)



-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, Michael - HMIS [mailto:Michael_Anderson AT HMIS DOT ORG]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:29 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Slow AIX Client backup


        I have an AIX client that is backing up very slow. It is an IBM J50
running an application called Softlab. It use to take
    4 1/2 hours per night going to tape. When we put it on TSM for testing
it was doing 4 gb in about 4 hours. Which I said
    was slow, compared to are other AIX boxes. We checked the NIC and the
switch settings both are at 100/full. They had
    no problem with this cause it was still a half hour quicker then what
they had. Now we have put it into the rotation and
    they are screaming it has doubled to like 8 hours. I only being the
administrator and not knowing much about the network
    group or the AIX systems group, do not know what else to check. Does
anybody have any clues for me? I am running
    TSM server ver 4.2.3 (on AIX 4.3.3)  client ver 4.2.2.1

     Thanks
     Mike Anderson
     Michael_Anderson AT hmis DOT org


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