On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:16:48AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> Another data point though; this backup today started at 1:30am (it's now
> 10:15am) and is only 35% through -- about 20GiB.  This is pretty abnormal
> (well, compared back to when it used to run -- it would on a bad day be
> finishing about now).
> 

Do you have network analysis capability?  One of the early things
network-knowledgable people seem to ask is if there is a duplex
(half/full) mismatch between the switch and the system.  Possibly
some auto-negotiation did not get it right.  IIRC, it causes a lot
of collisions and resends.

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