When this thread was last active, I had discovered, thanks to a tip on
this list, that MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP YES was the default, and set it to
NO. That did help some.

But all our Mac clients still run extremely slowly. A WinXP box and a
Mac G4 OSX 10.3 box, both running TSM 5.3.2, are sitting side-by-side,
so they have the same network connectivity. But the WinXP machine backs
up about 15 times faster than the Mac. The wall clock time for the Mac
is about 4 hours, compared to about 10 minutes for WinXP. We added a Mac
client contaiing about 1TB of data, and it is still running its initial
full backup after a week.

What can be done to speed up the Mac TSM client?

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
"No one may throw an old computer across the street at their neighbor."
-- city ordinance, Warsaw, Indiana