Has anyone ever run across a really poor performance copying specific folders from 2008 R2? We have a 1 GB backbone with HP switches. I did my test copying to a windows 2012 R2 fully patched server (which is the same Dell backup server using Arcserve). Both servers are fully patched. The production server is a file server, and also an app server, using apache and a canned Oracle database. Max connections are 50 endpoints. I noticed the performance hit running our nightly backups. Overall throughput crawled to around 1 GB per minute, it used to run at about 3 GB per minute. I set up a private network for copying/backup and the speed didn't improve. I then experimented with trying individual folder copies. That is when I noticed some folders would copy at 80 to 100 MB per second, while others would copy at 7 to 8 MB per second. A second almost identical server Dell 2008 R2 server with the Oracle database consistently gets 3+ GB throughput for the nightly backup. It doesn't exhibit the slow throughput. No other servers in our environment experience the slow throughput.
Strangely the issue only appears with copying specific folders. Any ideas, I'm stumped..... Thanks Scott Schneider
