pjmacl Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Back-up of Macs over 100BaseT Ethernet network is taking about 20 times LONGER than 6.1 with the exact same set up. (Days as opposed to a few hours for a 40G back-up.) All aspects are slow: scanning, matching, copying and catalog updating. Local client on same Mac as server is also slower than 6.1. The slow operation is making the system unusable, and I will have to revert to 6.1 until there is a fix or work around. Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Please try again with the update we will release this week. Client backup should be much faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florent Posted April 8, 2009 Report Share Posted April 8, 2009 Please try again with the update we will release this week. Client backup should be much faster. Happy Easter ! I love this kind of informations. Thanks Rob ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowspawn Posted April 14, 2009 Report Share Posted April 14, 2009 (edited) Short version: I am seeing good speeds with latest software. Long version I had a lot of performance problems with the beta versions of Retrospect 8. I'm just getting set up with the release version. Initial backup speed was awful, but I discovered the external hard drive was showing up as USB 1 which rather crippled performance! Switching it to firewire and running full backups... Retrospect Server running on iMac with 1 GB RAM (Console v8.0.608.1) Local backup from internal hard drive to external firewire hard drive Completed: 540819 files, 119.1 GB Performance: 860.8 MB/minute (687.7 copy, 1150.2 compare) Duration: 04:50:18 (00:07:11 idle/loading/preparing) Backup of client v6.3.019 running on PPC Mac Mini over 100 Mb ethernet Completed: 340507 files, 30.2 GB Performance: 210.8 MB/minute (137.0 copy, 456.8 compare) Duration: 05:05:09 (00:12:05 idle/loading/preparing) Edited April 14, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackie Shumaker Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 I am experiencing the same issues as Mr. Mac and I am using the update 8.0.608. No change. I have also increased the NICE value to -20 as recommended to increase responsiveness on an intel Mac. Hope more updates will come soon. Shubox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macpro Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 I'm getting about 140 MB/m via wireless backup. Using version 6 this was much higher and mostly well above 200 MB/m. On average the clients send 2.5 - 3 MB/s to the Retrospect server. Everything intel Core2Duo, 4 GB RAM, OS X 10.5.6. The Mac mini that runs the Retrospect Engine has plenty of memory and CPU cycles available to perform the backup. But Retrospect isn't using it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macpro Posted April 18, 2009 Report Share Posted April 18, 2009 I'm performing two wireless backups simultaneously at this moment. One runs at about 145 MB/m, the other at 115 MB/m. So the server is capable of processing about 250 MB/m. Then why is Retrospect not able to get this speed for a single backup, like version 6 used to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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