Environment
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 6
Novell NetWare 6.5 Support Pack 5
Situation
Slow Backup Performance
TSATest shows slow performance
Resolution
If a
server-based antivirus application is configured to scan modified
and accessed instead of just modified, it slows file access times
way down.
If a file
is compressed it has to decompress, scan, then re-compress it,
further slowing things down.
The solution is to have the anti-virus application scan just
modified, not modified and accessed.
Additional Information
The customer was seeing TSATest results in the 700mb/min range when
he had other similar servers that achieved well over 1000mb/min.