> Is it possible to slow down a backup client? We want it to use the
> disk = less heavily since it seems to affect the application...
> 
> The environment is NetBackup 4.5 FP3 on server and client. Server is
> on = Solaris and client on RedHat Linux.
> 

You can use the bandwidth limit option in NBU to throttle the network
speed, which would in turn limit the disk reads.

Also, xinetd allows you to set the nice value for a process.  I think
using bandwidth limit is a better method however.

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Larry Kingery 
       Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.