Peter Carrero's questions

We got 6 CORAID shelves in my workplace. On 2 of them I see AoE traffic on only 1 of the 2 NICs that are attached to the SAN switch. We got jumbo frames enabled on all devices.

Both NICs show up when I issue the aoe-interfaces command.

This wouldn't bother me too much if the throughput performance observed on the "bad" shelves using bonnie++ wasn't half of the result of the "good" shelves.

The "good" shelves are older SR1521 model and they have ReiserFS on their LUNS - not that I think it makes a difference - and the "bad" shelves are newer SR2421 model and have JFS.

Any help as to what is going on and how to rectify this would be greatly appreciated.

BTW: even the lower performing shelves outperform another iSCSI device we got, but that is another story.

Ok, we are at a loss here trying to backup a linux box to a backupexec server...

we got a backupexec 12.5 server and a "backupexec for windows servers linux agent" (sigh) running on one of our linux boxes.

When a backup runs, we get exceptions reported for our symbolic links. it says something like:

BACKUP- \\<servername>\[ROOT]
File \\<servername>\[ROOT]/<foldername>/<symlink> is in the backup selection list but was not found.

Looking at the selection list, the symlink shows as a 1k file on BUE.

Tools->Options->Backup has Backup files and directories by following symbolic links/junction points selected. These same checkboxes are selected on the Job Setup->Job Properties->Edit Template->Advanced

Additionally, all the checkboxes are checkeced on Tools->Options->Linux, Unix, and Macintosh and on the Job Set->Job Properties->Edit Template->Linux, Unix, and Macintosh. These checkboxes read: "Preserve change time", "Follow local mount points", "Follow remote mount points", "Backup contents of soft-linked directories" and "Lock remote files", but apparently changing those options produce the same result.

Any help on how to get BUE to make a proper backup would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.