All I can recommend is that you do some TESTING (you can use FTP) as soon as possible . You won't likely be able to achieve the full 100-Mbit/sec throughput, and will you have the full bandwidth dedicated to you? And there can be many pieces of hardware (hubs & routers & gateways, oh my) beween you and the destination, any one of them can slow you down.
SO test NOW to see how long it will really take to send/receive 50GB of data. -----Original Message----- From: Bleicher, Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 12:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backing up DBs around the globe We have a client who wants to back up his databases (MS SQL and others) from one site to another site (location of TSM-server) in another town a few hundred kilometers away. The connection will be a 100-MBit VPN-tunnel. So if one site is lost completely, the backups and the TSM-server would be ready for restore at the other site. So far this seems ok (disagreeing opinions appreciated :). Now it seems more likely this other town will end up (or rather down) in Australia. Has anyone experiences with medium-to-high volume backups over a global distance? No reliable numbers are available; I guess the bigest DB size is somewhere in the range of 10-50 GB. Platform will be Windows, TSM version will be the best I can get. Thank you for your time. Thomas Bleicher Netzlink Informationstechnik GmbH
