Yes, we discovered this as well.  The default for this option was
changed awhile back, and is now ON by default.  I believe it was
changed to ON because of older Macs that did not have a lot of memory
to spare.  Now, of course, newer Macs have lots of memory and really
don't need this option (IMHO).  I think the default should have been
left OFF, the way it used to be.  In any case, try turning it off and
see what that does to your performance numbers.

At 05:01 PM 2/12/2006, jsiegle wrote:

Roger,

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

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