Hi All, I've got a machine that is acting as my backup server which I call "Valykyrie". Up until this weekend, this machine was running RedHat 7.3 and Samba 2.2.5. Because of some "political issues", I was forced to rebuild the machine with SuSE 8.1 Professional and Samba 2.2.5.
Since the time of the machine coming online with SuSE on Sunday afternoon, my backup process has been running about 4 hours longer than normal. What I have happening is, through a script, Valykyrie mounts the administrative shares of a server's hard drive, copies the data local, compares the data and then moves on to the next drive or the next server and starts over - as shown here: ============================================================================ ======== mount -t smbfs -o username="domain_name\admin_username",password=<proper-password> \ //machine-name/sharename$ /mnt/mount-point cp -a /mnt/mount-point/ /backup diff -r brief /backup/mount-point /mnt/mount-point unmount /mnt/mount-point ============================================================================ ======== This cycle repeats for each required share on each server. <No gripes about rsync, partial backups, etc. please. This is the way I want it to work.> This amounts to about 45GB of data a night. This used to take 8 hours total, now it's taking nearly 12. Nothing changed hardware-wise or in my script, only the distro. Could just the change to SuSE cause this much of a performance loss? Is there anything I can do to increase the performance? I'm not looking for huge improvements, but I need these additional 4 hours back so that my users aren't working on data while the backup is taking place. Thanks, Kevin L. Collins, MCSE Systems Manager Nesbitt Engineering, Inc. (859) 233-3111 x24 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba