we are in discussion with the customer to replace his environment by a zseries with ficon attached dasd and perhaps 3592 at end of this year, but at the moment he needs a quick and relatively cheap solution for his current problem.
regards Franz Josef ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] question to backup on 3590 > > > > I have a customer who backs up a data amount of about 500 GB with 2 Jobs > > each day on a 2-drives-3590 with DSS. Because of data growth, he has now > > problems with his batch window. His 3590 (A50/B11) is connected to his R36 > > by one escon channel. During the backup the channel is completely busy. I > > have thought about a quick method to drop down the backup time by connecting > > a second channel. Is this possible and would this help him. He has > > experienced, if he runs only one job at a time, the backup time of this > > single job is significantly faster. Therefore I assume, that a second > > channel could help him. > Yes, as a quick fix, that is a good idea. the data rate of a 3590-B11, > after compression, is higher than the rate of an ESCON channel, so it is > not surprising that it maxes out the channel. Since he is writing to 2 > tapes, a second channel will help. > > Better long term fix is FICON channels > > -- > Bruce A. Black > Senior Software Developer for FDR > Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 > personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
