> > I have run a backup over a network. It has transferred approximately 19=
 GBytes 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=
 is 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.

How about it is verifying each block by doing a read after write? Shouldn't=
 need to do that on a disk to disk backup.


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