David,

This one is from experience.  You're probably out of luck.  Lots of files,
lots of two way network traffic.  Our solution here was to make the Mondo
server a Media Server.  That, combined with our SSO/Fibre SAN configuration
do-able.  That machine can never be a high performer, you're waiting on
Windows and the Agent digging through the file system.  The drive in
question isn't COMPRESSED is it (ours was, and that made it even worse!)?

David Anderson
ScrippsHealth Information Services

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 Performance Question...

Okay, I have a client who is having some serious performance issues with
their 
NT / 2000 backup jobs.

One client in particular is a 2000 machine with 300GB RAID 5, they have a
LARGE 
NUMBER of SMALL FILES.

We went through all of the normal test, network, ftp, bpbkar to dev/null,
etc., 
etc. (believe me we did our due diligence)  We did identify that defrag'ing
one 
of the drives helped in the backup performance (~1GB/hour), but not nearly
as 
good as it should be performing (20 - 30 GB/hour to 9840A's and B's)

Any creative ideas out there for making this run FASTER?

Or are we just SOL because of the NUM FILES and their TINY size?