>> I am backing up via the DBM Gui to a pipe on HP-UX 11.11 (7.5 database >> release). The pipe is sending 8k chunks at a time. Is there a way to >> increase the chunks being sent to the pipe to help increase the backup >> speed. Currently 10g of data backed up via the pipe to a gigabyte line >> in 40 minutes using Galaxy software (Commvault). > > What you can try to do is to take the content of the pipe via 'dd' and > pipe > that to another pipe. There you can give the "dd" a bigger blocksize.
Depending on how the data stream is handled by the backup software, you may also want to use buffering on the database servers side. I can really recommend mbuffer for that kind of task. Another nice thing is that it also lets you "visualize" the data flow. You can find it here: http://www.maier-komor.de/mbuffer.html Similar tools are pipemeter and pv: http://spamaps.org/pipemeter.php http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml Regards, Simon > > Greetz, > SIEGENIA-AUBI KG > Informationswesen > > i.A. > > Markus Döhr > SAP-Competence Center/Basis > > Tel.: +49 6503 917-152 > Fax: +49 6503 917-7152 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Internet: http://www.siegenia-aubi.com > > > > -- > MaxDB Discussion Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MaxDB Discussion Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/maxdb To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
