On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Dave Markham wrote:

> Has anyone seen this before?
> 
> Netbackup 5.0 mp3 Solaris9 connected to L700 via fibre.
> 
> I have a network client on a 100Mb network which is beyond slow backing
> up. Looking at the gui ( i know not accurate ) details for a job shows
> like 127kb/s.
> 
> Doing an scp of a 128mb file from master server to the client is quick <
> 20 secs.
> Doing an scp of the same file from client to master it gives ETA of over
> an hour, which comes down to like 20-30 minutes. Obviously wrong.
> 
> So first thing on the solaris client i did was force the nic to 100 full
> autoneg off. Then doing an scp seems to be quick both ways. Great.
> 
> Then launch a manual backup off for the client only and the speed is
> slow. 127kb/s again.
> 
> going back and trying the scp is now slow again from client to master
> server.
> 
> Whats going on?
> 
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Sounds like a weird network problem to me, check switches/etc, run a 
constant FTP and see/wait/watch to see what changes when it goes slow 
again.