Roger Deschner wrote:

<Shields up to deflect flames from Mac bigots!>

I have been getting complaints of slow backups from Mac client nodes.

I wanted to examine the possibility that this was not simply the whining
of a population already prone to whine, so I got a Mac OSX 10.3 G4 box
and put it on my desk, and installed TSM 5.3.2 client on it, and sure
enough, it backs up very slowly. They're not just whining; they're
right. A recent incremental took 11 hours, during which time it was
"inspecting files" at a rate of about 3 files/second.

Roger,
        
        Would you believe that memoryefficientbackup is on by default? That is 
usually step one for me.

This is average performance for my mac desktop on a 100Mb connection:


09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of objects inspected:  686,275
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of objects backed up:       48
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of objects updated:          0
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of objects rebound:          0
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of objects deleted:          0
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of objects expired:          0
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of objects failed:           0
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Total number of bytes transferred:    47.81 MB
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Data transfer time:                    1.31 sec
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Network data transfer rate:        37,333.78 KB/sec
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Aggregate data transfer rate:         21.23 KB/sec
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Objects compressed by:                   73%
09/11/2005 05:46:23 Elapsed processing time:           00:38:25


-Jonathan