I have noticed the exact same pattern.  We have a different mix 130NT
and 40Unix.  But there are very rarely problems with the Unix clients,
while there is almost never a night that doesn't have NT failures.  I've
not figured out a way to make the NT clients more reliable (then again
neither has Bill).

If any NT gurus have figured this out I'd like to hear what they've done
also.

Thanks,

Joel
-----Original Message-----
From: David E. Nelson [mailto:david.nelson AT NI DOT COM] 
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 11:37 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] How reliable our your windows backups?

Hi All,

We backup ~100 windows clients (NT4, W2k) and very rarely do we see 100%
success rate (broken pipes and timeouts are the biggies - even on
fulls).
However, our Unix BU's (~80) are very reliable.

Does anybody else experience this similar behavior?  If so, what did you
do to
fix it?  Or do you just accept things as they are?

Thanks,
        /\/elson



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