Re: backups on big, busy, networked drive
Kent Paul Dolan wrote:
The network available bandwidth drops to 0.1% of
normal when he kicks off a backup, which means
he has to cancel it to keep the 24x7 users happy.
He could try to increase the available bandwidth between the file server
and the backup server/workstation by adding an extra NIC (or upgrade to
gigabit if he's using 100 Mbit).
If the data is on an LVM partition, I would also recommend taking a
snapshot and then backing up the snapshot image.
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