On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Campbell, Lance <lance@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Scott, > The server is a Dell PowerEdge 2900 II with the standard Perc 6/I SAS > controller with 256 MB cache. It's probably not gonna win any awards, but it's not too terrible. What does vmstat 1 say during your backups / normal operation? The last four or five columns have the most useful data for troubleshooting.