Hello,

A recent code change has been added to reduce CPU utilization during
online (snapshot) image and offline (static) image backups.  Please try
TSM Windows Client 5.1.5.9 which contains this change, before
investigating hardware changes.

Best Regards,
Omar
TSM Development
ovargas AT us.ibm DOT com

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First some stats about the servers involved

TSM Server- Windows 2000 TSM Server-Ver 5.1.1
TSM Client Windows 2K- 2CPU's@700MHz each 1Gig of RAM TSM Client
Version-5.1.1 with SAN Agent.

When I do an image snapshot backup on the client the CPU Averages around
70-90%. Is this normal? Will adding 2 more CPU Alleviate this problem and
improve performance. I am using 2 LTO Drives to do this backup and I am
averaging around 32MB/sec. Any help will be appreciated.



Thank You,
Matt Martinez
NT System Administrator
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc
207-856-0656
Fax:207-856-8320
matt AT idexx DOT com