On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:28:33AM -0500, Kathy Riddlemoser wrote:
> I just recently upgraded my Sun E220R from Solaris 7 to Solaris 9 and from
> NBDC 3.4 to 4.5_6.  I am using an Overland LTO (soon to upgrade to LTO2).
> My unix clients average 12-14 MB whereas my windows clients average 4-5 MB.
> Windows backups are 3 times slower.  WHY? 
> 
> My windows 2000 file server with 511 GB storage started backing up on Friday
> at 13:40:59 and it's elapse time is now (Monday) at 67:41:09 and has only
> backed up 299 GB.  I had a unix box backup 484 GB in 30 hours.  This is sad.

We've got the same problem but in our case the Windows systems have lots
and lots of little files, whereas the Solaris systems have nice large
databases.  Lots of small files will *always* kill performance, and
there's not much you can do about it.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org