Backup Speeds

[MrBuskin]

Im currently backing up 2 production servers (See Specs Below) and are constantly getting only 10MB/s  transfer rate on both servers and can not understand why.

However when I backup other servers that have the same specs I get very fast backups.

I've been having problems with these servers since day one, but only these two, they have been reformatted over and over again but still no solution, my next support call will be to IBM.

Server 1 Specs:

IBM System x3850

Windows Server 2K3 R2 x86

4 x Intel Xeon Processors (3.5 GHz per processor)

500 GB Hard Drive on Adaptec 4800SAS ( RAID 0/5)

Intel Pro/10Gbe LR Server Adapter

8 GB Ram

Server 2 Specs:

IBM System x3850

4 x Intel Xeon Processors (3.5 GHz per processor)

320 GB Hard Drive on Adaptec 4800SAS ( RAID 0/5)

Intel Pro/10Gbe LR Server Adapter

5 GB Ram

Backup Server Specs:

HP Sx2000

Windows Server 2K3 R2 x86

12 x Itanium 2 Processors (1.6 GHz)

128 GB Ram

8 x Intel Pro/10Gbe LR Server Adapters

80 TB (SAN)

Message Edited by MrBuskin on 07-14-200701:58 AM

[Ken_Putnam]

verify that Autonegotiate is NOT enabled between the problem servers and the media server

hardset each end of each pipe at whatever  is appropriate for your network

[Hywel_Mallett]

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MrBuskin wrote:

12 x Itanium 2 Processors (1.6 GHz)

128 GB Ram

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It's obvious to me that your BE server is underpowered...

Is there no problems with transfers between these two servers and the BE server for other operations, such as a file copy? Or is it just BE that's slow?