How do I improve slow backup times for NetWare clients?

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Configure your NetWare client in the target configuration (see NetBackup Target Version User's Guide).

Then, on the master server, do this:

1) Click on 'Allow Multiple Data Streams'.

2) In filelist attributes, make each target or groups of targets separate streams:

NEW_STREAM

/SYS

/SSI

NEW_STREAM

/VOL1

NEW_STREAM

/VOL2

NEW_STREAM

/VOL3

3) Set the schedule's to match MPX with the number of streams; in this case 4.

This change improved backups for some large NetWare fileserver from 9.7 Gig an hour to 20.3 Gig an hour.