I got has fast as 122MB/min...  Find it hard to believe the default was 1K, 
unless the server was a P90 with 8MB of RAM... ;-)

At 05:07 PM 4/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>Huh... I just moved the block size from 8->32K and the buffer from 32->128K
>on my Seagate AIT-1s, and I'm now seeing full device speed (180 MB/minute
>native) on my backups, instead of 80-100 MB/minute. Good tip!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ron Jameson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:42 PM
>To: NT 2000 Discussions
>Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate? (Problem Solved)
>
>
>Just checked my setting and it was set for 64k.  Guess I will continue in
>trying a good way to increase speeds of the gazillions of little files being
>backed up.
>
>Ron
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jacob
>Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 12:05 PM
>To: NT 2000 Discussions
>Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate? (Problem Solved)
>
>
>
>Go to the Devices Tab - right click on the Tape device and go to
>properties.  In the configuration tab, change the settings.  The default 1K.
>
>At 11:51 AM 4/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >Jacob - is that setting in the BE setup?
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jacob
> >Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:37 AM
> >To: NT 2000 Discussions
> >Subject: Re: Veritas backup rate? (Problem Solved)
> >
> >
> >
> >Problem solved, thanks to Benchmark's tech support.   Block size and buffer
> >size settings.  I set each to 64K.  I am now seeing 80 MB / min.
> >
> >At 07:31 PM 4/3/2002 -0800, you wrote:
> > >Transferring the data from a server to the backup server is quick...
>about
> > >4 MB / sec...  Entire Network in 3 hours..
> > >
> > >It is doing the backup on the backup server itself that is the problem
> > >
> > >At 02:29 AM 4/4/2002 +0200, you wrote:
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: "Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>To: "NT 2000 Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 9:45 PM
> > >>Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> > Did a backup of 19,800 files for a total of 164 MB in one folder.  I
> >used
> > >> > the built-in Windows 2000 backup software and got a rate of 29 MB /
> >min...
> > >> > woohoo!!!
> > >>
> > >>if you xcopy the files to the backup server how fast is that ?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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