Click the Exhibit button. You are integrating a local tape backup solution in your IT environment. What can cause the Gigabit Ethernet to become the bottleneck in this backup environment?

Agent installation is an infrequent setup task, not a continuous activity that would bottleneck ongoing backup sessions.

Backing up millions of files generates an extensive amount of metadata, including file names, attributes, and directory structures. The sheer volume of these small metadata operations and associated network packets can saturate a Gigabit Ethernet link, causing it to become the bottleneck even if the raw data throughput capacity is higher.

A second file copy to a catalog database is typically an internal process or local storage operation, not primarily limited by Gigabit Ethernet for the main backup data flow to tape.

While actual data traffic could be a bottleneck, the question specifically highlights the impact of 'millions of files' which points to metadata overhead as the critical factor for a Gigabit Ethernet link.