Optimize backup performance with Arcserve client

[Raymond Wu - MTG]

Inheriting an established shop - ARCserver cleint backups to Wintel server seem painfully slow over a 1Gb LAN.

Contents of the uag.cfg is:
-b 24576
-c 50
-s 65536
-m 1024
-S

Any help or advice as to how to start understanding/figuring this out would be greatly appreciated. Was thinking of getting HPPPA but have suspicion it's more basic and fundamental of a problem.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

From the HP-UX standpoint.

Run lanadmin -x 0
(change the zero to the active lan, lan0 means zero lan9 means 9)

Make sure you are getting GB performance.

In HP-UX GB lan cards must be set to auto negotiate and they must be connected to switches configured the same way.

SEP

[Raymond Wu - MTG]

Hi Steven,

Yeah, that was the very first thing I checked.

I did the normal network related tests - netstat -i, ping, traceroute, and even FTP's between the two boxes where the numbers were 2x if not 3x as fast.

Ray