hi guys
I'm a wedding photographer so backups are very important lest I be chased out of town by angry brides.
I have a macpro as my workstation.
I built a PC (running Win7) as a combo file server/gaming box. It has a 7tb raid5 partition which I have mounted over the network no probs. I've created a sparse bundle disk image on it as documented on the web for getting time machine backups working to a smb share.
The first time machine backup worked great - it took a few days to backup as it was 2.5tb the first time, but it worked fine.
The problem now though is that subsequent backups are unusably slow.
The bizarre thing is my macpro (by looking at network traffic via menumeters) is *receiving* a constant 8MB/s from the backup server and only sending 300-500kb/s to the backup server during the backup. Why on earth would it be receiving that much traffic, and why is it so slow is the question. It should be around the other way!
The PC is fine - if I do a file copy via the finder over the network it gets up to 55MB/s.
Any ideas? this is a real deal breaker and I'm not sure what I can do.
The reason for the PC and not using a device attached directly to my macpro is that the PC is located in another building for some level of offsite redundancy, but at the end of the day it's just connected by ethernet.
I'm a wedding photographer so backups are very important lest I be chased out of town by angry brides.
I have a macpro as my workstation.
I built a PC (running Win7) as a combo file server/gaming box. It has a 7tb raid5 partition which I have mounted over the network no probs. I've created a sparse bundle disk image on it as documented on the web for getting time machine backups working to a smb share.
The first time machine backup worked great - it took a few days to backup as it was 2.5tb the first time, but it worked fine.
The problem now though is that subsequent backups are unusably slow.
The bizarre thing is my macpro (by looking at network traffic via menumeters) is *receiving* a constant 8MB/s from the backup server and only sending 300-500kb/s to the backup server during the backup. Why on earth would it be receiving that much traffic, and why is it so slow is the question. It should be around the other way!
The PC is fine - if I do a file copy via the finder over the network it gets up to 55MB/s.
Any ideas? this is a real deal breaker and I'm not sure what I can do.
The reason for the PC and not using a device attached directly to my macpro is that the PC is located in another building for some level of offsite redundancy, but at the end of the day it's just connected by ethernet.