There's nothing quite like writing an article and then losing all the text and having to start again. Take two...

It's best to measure performance to ensure you're heading in the right direction. Yesterday I came across NetMeter which is a tool that monitors your network throughput and displays a pretty graph. I installed it on our TSM server and scaled the graph so it max's out when client backups are running. Now in the future without much effort I can logon and check performance. Takes seconds to setup and may help identify bottlenecks in the future. It can auto load with Windows and takes about 1/36th of your screen up (no idea how I came up with that number).

Enjoy your weekend
Ryan Partington