Dave
 
Look in the performance tuning guide to test bpbkar to dev null
 
Dave

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbkart on unix



Dave

If you can ftp/scp a file from one server to another with a normal throughtput, 
certainly 
it?s not a network issue.

Have you tested bpbkar to /dev/null on the client?

How the client CPU behaves when you start a backup? 

tia


On 11/7/06, Dave Markham <dave.markham at fjserv.net> wrote: 

        Guys checked the switch and all set to 100 full autoneg off.
        
        Will have to look at the card next i think.
        
        
        WEAVER, Simon wrote:
        > Dave
        > Anything on the switch that needs to be configured at all ? 
        >
        > Regards
        >
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        > -----Original Message-----
        > From: Dave Markham [mailto: dave.markham at fjserv.net 
<mailto:dave.markham at fjserv.net> ]
        > Sent: 07 November 2006 10:27
        > To: Edson Noboru Yamada
        > Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] bpbkart on unix 
        >
        >
        > Getting 128kb from one client over a 100mbit network connected to the 
backup
        > server which is gig ethernet and attached to L700 by fibre using LTO2
        > drives.
        >
        > When ever had this before its always just been duplex and autoneg 
settings 
        > but this time that hasnt fixed things
        >
        > Cheers
        >
        > Edson Noboru Yamada wrote:
        >
        >> You can use the unix time command to measure how long a bpbkar to
        >> /dev/null takes (google bpbkar /dev/null and you should see the 
exact 
        >> syntax).
        >>
        >> What do you mean by "slow"? How many MB/s are you getting?
        >>
        >> edson
        >>
        >>
        >> On 11/6/06, *Dave Markham* < dave.markham at fjserv.net 
<mailto:dave.markham at fjserv.net> 
        >> <mailto:dave.markham at fjserv.net>> wrote:
        >>
        >>     Anyone point me in the direction of a doc or technote on how to 
        >>     benchmark the bpbkar performance on a unix ( solaris ) client? I 
cant
        >>     find anything. Only the windows one.
        >>
        >>     Im having backup speed problems and want to rule out NBU. 
Strange 
        >>     thing
        >>     is if i set the network to 100 mb , full duplex, autoneg off and 
scp a
        >>     filre in boith directions its quick. As soon as i run a backup 
its
        >>     slow
        >>     and then doing an scp is slow too. 
        >>
        >>     Odd.
        >>
        >>     thanks
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