Re: Backup to USB works but to NAS fails

OOPS. One other discovery. I may have found the source of the problem.
In my original post I asked how to learn the speed of my network. I
never thought of going to Task Manager and looking at the Networking
tab. Low and behold it says that the WAN connection is 100 Mbps. and,
ARGH, the LAN is running at 10 Mbps.

Is the LAN speed controlled by the NIC in the server or by the first
object, the hub, that connects to the NIC? When I looked at the NIC
last night, I thought that it said that it was 10/100 Mbps, but I'll
have to look again in the morning.

Brian Bygland

"Another Brian" <notbrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi David. Here's where we stand ...

I've moved the NAS so that it hangs directly off the hub (yes it is
a hub, not a switch) so it is SBS > hub > NAS. The backup started at
10:30 PM PDT last night and is still running as 5:47 PM PDT today,
or in other words, it's been running for almost 19 hours. Not good.
Judging by the size of the resulting backup file, it should be
almost complete.

Changing the hub to a switch might make a bit of difference, but I
don't think that much. An 8-port switch runs around $60, but I'm
currently using all 8-ports of the hub and could really use 3 more
ports, so I might as well go for a 16 or 24-port switch which start
at $120.

Activating the second 100Mb NIC in the server and hanging the NAS
directly off it (I guess I'd need a crossover cable to do that)
might also help, but I doubt that it would reduce the backup from 19
hours back down to the 5 hours when I backup to the attached USB
drive.

That leaves putting in a GIG NIC in the server and hood the NAS
directly to that. I can get a GIG NIC for under $30 and I understand
that I can use CAT5e cable instead of the more expensive CAT6.

Any other ideas?
Brian

"David Barnes" <david at bitsolve dot com .nospam.ignore.net> wrote
in message news:%237gJ$3BCIHA.4176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Brian,
How's it panning out?
David

"Another Brian" <notbrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It's a small white box with 8-ports located on its end behind a
bunch of books with not enough slack wire to move it far enough to
read any of its labels. Having just read the difference between a
switch and a hub and realize that a switch is better. I'm heading
up on-site in a few minutes and will take a look even if I have to
unplug everything to see what it is (everyone should be out to
lunch). If it is a hub, which I suspect, after lunch maybe I'll
head over to Fry's and get a switch with more ports.

Brian Bygland







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