Jonathan Swaby said:
> I recently upgraded a RH9 box to Fedora Core1. The upgrade went fine,
> but my Amanda backups have slowed down a great deal. I am using this
> machine to backup a Win2k server, a Win2k3 server, and a couple of
> Linux boxes. The backups for the Linux boxes are running at the same
> pace as always, but my win boxes are extremely slow. My Win2k box was
> taking an hour and it now take 3.5 hours. My Win2k3 box was taking 16
> minutes and now takes 1.25 hours. Several of the packages Amanda uses
> were upgraded in the process. I am, however, still using Amanda 2.4.4.
>
> gtar 1.13.25
> gzip 1.3.3
> smbclient 3.0.7-2.FC1
>
> Before the upgrade, I had
> gtar 1.13.25-11
> gzip 1.3.3-9
> smbclient 3.0.5
>
> I have not yet tried down grading to smbclient 3.0.5. This might fix
> the problem.
>
> I have googled for possible answers, but I have found nothing. Has
> anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any ideas on how to
> solve the problem?

Hi, I'm http://FedoraNEWS.ORG/ghenry, so I like to think I know a bit
about Fedora :-)

IIRC, from RH9 to FC1 the file protocol changed from smbfs to cifs, and
all sorts of problems started to happen with samba.

I would upgrade to FC2 if at all possible.

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