Check your duplex settings and switch port speeds.


Alexei


On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 14:40, Elwood Blues wrote:
> A customer is having a problem with one of their servers backups. Running
> NB Datacenter server on Solaris 7, with several Solaris 7 & 8 clients. All
> the clients backup fine, except for one (Solaris 8, UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz,
> 768M RAM). The only thing different about this client is that it is a mail
> server. If the backup is allowed to run, it will sometimes take up to 4
> days to complete, blocking out other NetBackup clients during that time.
> Initially we were assuming that the backups were taking a long time due to
> constantly updating mail spools and mqueue directories. We altered what
> files would be backed up, limiting it to config files and binaries, and
> backups would still take forever. Looking at the log files during a backup
> showed very little information, the backup would sit for 30 or more
> minutes at a time backing up something small like an /etc/rc*.d file. The
> server has plenty of available cpu, memory and swap space. These servers
> all hang off the same VLAN, and the server that is having difficulty has
> plently of available bandwidth. The other NetBackup clients are backing
> up significantly more data in much less time (15-45 minutes).
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on the situation, any suggestions for what kind
> of additional logging I should enable, etc?
> 
> TIA
> 
>     -F
> 
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