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Are you using a Single Ended SCSI controller or an LVD SCSI controller? And what make/model is it?<br />
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Is the SCSI bus properly terminated?<br />
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How are you doing the backup (dump, tar, cpio, other) and what is the backup command you are using?<br />
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What is the load average and swap statistics look like when the backup is occuring?
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Are you using a Single Ended SCSI controller or an LVD SCSI controller? And what make/model is it?

Is the SCSI bus properly terminated?

How are you doing the backup (dump, tar, cpio, other) and what is the backup command you are using?

What is the load average and swap statistics look like when the backup is occuring?

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Are you using a Single Ended SCSI controller or an LVD SCSI controller? And what make/model is it?<br />
- Adaptec 29320AR<br />
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Is the SCSI bus properly terminated?<br />
- How do I check this? It is my first installation using SCSI devices.<br />
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How are you doing the backup (dump, tar, cpio, other) and what is the backup command you are using?<br />
- flexbackup, type = tar<br />
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What is the load average and swap statistics look like when the backup is occuring?<br />
- How do I check this? Backup is scheduled to start at 00h00 when there are no users working.<br />

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Are you using a Single Ended SCSI controller or an LVD SCSI controller? And what make/model is it?
- Adaptec 29320AR

Is the SCSI bus properly terminated?
- How do I check this? It is my first installation using SCSI devices.

How are you doing the backup (dump, tar, cpio, other) and what is the backup command you are using?
- flexbackup, type = tar

What is the load average and swap statistics look like when the backup is occuring?
- How do I check this? Backup is scheduled to start at 00h00 when there are no users working.


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Doing a backup of 22GB to a SDX-400V AIT driver takes almost 7 hours.<br />
What could be wrong?<br />

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Doing a backup of 22GB to a SDX-400V AIT driver takes almost 7 hours.
What could be wrong?


Slow backup

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