[LMStone]

Originally Posted by langs

Out of curiosity where do they say that and why? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me, NFS is well proven and a hell of a lot better then Samba.

The install docs list services to turn off/avoid; NFS is one of them.

Originally Posted by langs

I have all my backups going to a NFS mounted target on my SAN, does 300gb nightly without issue and fast.. don't know where the slow comes into it.

We have used and continue to use NFS in a variety of deployments just fine. We just find cifs to be able to transfer larger files (>50MB) faster than NFS.

Originally Posted by langs

my bet is your smb setup is having issues, are you using the NE version or the open source? If you are using the open source version with Rsync you will see "bad file descriptor" if you use -a, as it will want full *Nix permissions that a smb mount doesn't handle.

I suspect you are right. If so, either we'll need to tweak the mount options or we went a little too low end on this particular NAS server.

But, the java article in my original post led me to believe we ourselves may not be entirely to blame, hence my post to see if anyone has had this issue with Zimbra. Not casting a stone, just asking.

Thanks for your post!
Mark

P.S. We are on NE. Sorry, I don't post the version we are running anymore after we got into the habit of keeping our profile up to date. :-)