KBs per second - very slow network job

[BWShade]

Someone must have seen this before.

We have a Win2k Arcserve 9 server (plus SQL2000, though not for the BA DB) backing up 3 Win2k (webserver) Agent machines over 100mb (set to 100/Full) network with very little other traffic.

We are getting throughput in Kbs per second, as opposed to the MBs we experience with other servers in our infrastructure.

As it is, the job is taking more than 24 hours, and has to be aborted.

The backup on the SQL/Arcserve box is fine, giving decent throughput, it is only the network agents that seem to be suffering.

The SQL box is in a DMZ, but seems to be allowing standard traffic through during the day. It is also not as if the traffic is being rejected, it just takes forever.

Getting desperate here guys, and clues?

Allen

 

[davidmichel]

try setting up the db agent to use IP instead of named pipes
do a regular data backup of the same drive just to compare

 

[BWShade]

Thanks DM

Agents already using IP.

Have just found a high percentage of CRC errors being reported on the HP network Team cards.

Getting the switches and firewall checked out.

 

[fritzah]

I had same problem, faulty nic.