Where are you ftp'ing to/from?  /tmp on the client in question?  If so
you may have filesystem issues; maybe disk contention, controller
problems, etc...

The best test would be to ftp to/from the filesystem you are trying to
back up.

~JK

> David Markham wrote:
> 
> I have Netbackup 3.2 on solaris 8 with a sun L1000 storage unit.
> 
> I have multiple clients backing up, but seem to have a problem with 1
> client. It is taking like 7-8 hours to backup 14 gig. where as I have
> another client taking about 5 hours to backup 70 gig . The latter is
> ok, but the machine taking so long to backup 14 gig seems v extreme.
> 
> Has anyone any ideas where to look why this might be doing this, or
> seen this b4?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Dave

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