On 26/02/2012 1:54 PM, YES NOPE9 wrote:
> I have run a backup over a network. It has transferred approximately 19 G=
Bytes in a little over 5 hours on a 100BaseT network.
> [[   19.29 GByte&   ( 5:14 hours  =3D=3D>  18.84K seconds  )  =3D=3D>  1.=
204 MByte/sec or ~ 12Mbits/sec  ]]
> Is this to be expected or is the network being under-utilized   ( there i=
s no other traffic )
> gus
You should be xferring ~8mbytes/sec over 100base.
sending stuff over network isnt a cpu bound task.
you havent said how you are backing up
i wager its your backup software doing something silly.

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