Re: mirror a drive

2009-04-11 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day listers Thanks to everyone that offered advice, both on and off list. The end user ended up running Onyx in Automation mode, with the following ticked Repair Permissions Execute Maintenance Scripts Launch Services Mail's Envelope Index User Cache Whichever one did the trick, the s

Re: mirror a drive

2009-04-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 11, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 3:52 PM +1000 4/11/2009, Brian Christmas wrote: >> >> To ensure that the HP printer was causing the problem we re-installed >> it on AppleTalk. Sure enough the server access slowed down again. >> >> Un-installed printer - still slow >> Turned off Ap

Re: mirror a drive

2009-04-11 Thread Dan
At 3:52 PM +1000 4/11/2009, Brian Christmas wrote: > >To ensure that the HP printer was causing the problem we re-installed >it on AppleTalk. Sure enough the server access slowed down again. > >Un-installed printer - still slow >Turned off AppleTalk - still slow >Re-booted - still slow. What els

Re: mirror a drive

2009-04-10 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day again listers. New problem. To ensure that the HP printer was causing the problem we re-installed it on AppleTalk. Sure enough the server access slowed down again. Un-installed printer - still slow Turned off AppleTalk - still slow Re-booted - still slow. What on earth is going on, is

Re: mirror a drive

2009-04-10 Thread Dan
At 2:44 AM +1000 4/11/2009, Brian Christmas wrote: > >Situation: a mail room getting HEAPS of artwork that has to be >printed on a tight turnaround time schedule. 30-40 emails per hour. >The email and art has to be date/time stamped and archived to the mac >AND the server on a network. Won't

Re: mirror a drive

2009-04-10 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day Dan Situation: a mail room getting HEAPS of artwork that has to be printed on a tight turnaround time schedule. 30-40 emails per hour. The email and art has to be date/time stamped and archived to the mac AND the server on a network. For some reason the network is @#$% slow. We're

Re: mirror a drive

2009-04-10 Thread Dan
At 10:28 PM +1000 4/10/2009, Brian Christmas wrote: > >I'm trying to save multiple email, rtfd, and Zip files to a NAS >server about 30 times per hour. >[and later] Time is critical Why? What's the point of all this? >The saving to server is proving very, very slow compared to saving >the sam

mirror a drive

2009-04-10 Thread Brian Christmas
G'day I've got a bit of an OT . I'm trying to save multiple email, rtfd, and Zip files to a NAS server about 30 times per hour. The saving to server is proving very, very slow compared to saving the same files to an external hard drive off of the power mac. Time is critical, and the server