try watching the interface on the tsm server, if your site in general
doesn't run client compression, your server's interface might be flooded by
other traffic.  (heck, even if your clients run compression you still might
flood the interface)

#!/bin/ksh
# my_ent_stats
# if run hourly, will give output to track hourly traffic...
#   output files are
# /home/dsmadmin/ent#.stats
# /home/dsmadmin/ent#.stats.<Dow>  where Dow is 3 letter abbr of weekday
# THIS MUST BE RUN BY ROOT IN ORDER TO RESET THE INTERFACE STATISTICS
#
for INTERFACE in $(netstat -in | grep ^e | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort -u )
do
echo $(date +"%a-%b-%d-%Y-%H:%M") $(entstat $INTERFACE | grep ^Bytes | sed
's/
 / /g' | sed 's/Bytes:/ /g') >> /home/dsmadmin/$INTERFACE.stats
echo $(date +"%a-%b-%d-%Y-%H:%M") >> /home/dsmadmin/$INTERFACE.stats.$(date
+%a)
entstat $INTERFACE >> /home/dsmadmin/$INTERFACE.stats.$(date +%a)
entstat -r $INTERFACE 1>/dev/null 2>&1
done
chmod ugo+rw /home/dsmadmin/en*
exit


Dwight



-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, Michael - HMIS [mailto:Michael_Anderson AT HMIS DOT ORG]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 3:29 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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