Cool... we get 26 gig in 6 hours.  Okay for us.

Hey... we use Peachtree ;) (part of the backup)

At 04:16 PM 4/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>And it's sweet when you can get a backup of 55gig in less than an hour and a
>half.
>
>
>Warren J. Bennett
>Internal Systems-Peachtree Software
>BackOffice Infrastructure Architect
>phone: 770.724.4008
>fax: 770.724.2989
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>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From:   Leonard Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent:   Friday, April 19, 2002 3:44 PM
>To:     NT 2000 Discussions
>Subject:        RE: Veritas backup rate?
>
>Super-D-Duper...
>
>FYI: Just checked out the HW specs on that Compaq SDLT.  It's spec out to a
>Max of 683MB/min (native transfer rate)....so, I would say you are still
>max'ing out somewhere else...hard to imagine isn't it.
>
>Also, side comment...that DL380G2 is one fine machine....Hot swappable
>RAM...
>
>Cheers,
>Leonard Lee
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bennett, Warren
> > Sent: April 19, 2002 2:52 PM
> > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate?
> >
> >
> > After we provided the drives with enough bandwidth we were
> > getting better
> > than 600Mbytes per minute at each drive simultaneously. Which
> > you could
> > consider the upper limit of what the SDLT's can do. So after giving it
> > enough network bandwidth we essentially had no bottleneck in
> > the system.
> >
> > Here's the config:
> > * Compaq MSL5026 with two each of the SDLT drives for a total of 4.
> > * Compaq DL380G2. The G2 has 2 66Mhz slots so we used 2 dual channel
> > 66Mhz/64 bit SCSI controllers and attached 1 drive per channel.
> > * Simple raid 5 array on the server.
> > * Backupexec 8.6
> >
> >
> > Warren J. Bennett
> >
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From:         Leonard Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 1:04 PM
> > To:   NT 2000 Discussions
> > Subject:      RE: Veritas backup rate?
> >
> > That's great info.
> >
> > At 350mb/s.  Did the bottleneck move from the network card to
> > the backup
> > units?  Or maybe the disk drives?  What sort of drive
> > configuration did you
> > use?
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > Bennett, Warren
> > > Sent: April 19, 2002 9:33 AM
> > > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > > Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate?
> > >
> > >
> > > We just finished installing a new 4 drive sdlt library. We
> > > setup 4 large
> > > chunks of data on 4 different severs on the network to do throughput
> > > testing. We found some very interesting things during the
> > > tests. Basically
> > > we the original 100/full nic we were using was not even close
> > > to providing
> > > enough bandwidth to the drives. We attempted to team (Compaq)
> > > 4 nics but
> > > were having problems with getting the 4th to pass traffic. But every
> > > additional nic we added increased the throughput performance
> > > of the library.
> > > We then yanked those and install a gigabit fiber card. The
> > > total bandwidth
> > > being used by the 4 drives was 350mb/s.
> > >
> > >
> > > Warren J. Bennett
> > >
> > >
> > >  -----Original Message-----
> > > From:       Bendall, Paul (KBPB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent:       Monday, April 08, 2002 3:41 AM
> > > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > > Subject:    RE: Veritas backup rate?
> > >
> > > We are using the Netbackup software from Veritas and achieve
> > > about 10GB per
> > > hour from our fileservers, this is to a SDLT robot. The
> > > biggest thing we
> > > saw, after disabling anti-virus was making sure all Netcoms
> > > equipment, NIC,
> > > switches, etc were set to 100 full-duplex, if anything was
> > > left at auto
> > > sensing we got awful transer rates.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Douglas, Josh D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: 03 April 2002 18:23
> > > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > > Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate?
> > >
> > >
> > > I average about 110 mb/min (if the target computer is on the
> > > same switch as
> > > the backup server).  We get 8-10 mb/min if we try to back
> > > something up from
> > > a computer on the same stack but different switch.  We have
> > > 3com superstack
> > > 3300 and we think that it is because of different firmware
> > > versions between
> > > the switches in the stack.  This has taken awhile to pin down
> > > and Veritas
> > > said that the speed would have nothing to do with them and to
> > > check the
> > > network. We don't seem to have any network issues other than
> > > backing up. We
> > > are upgrading our switches later this week so if this helps
> > > us I will post
> > > the results
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:18 AM
> > > To: NT 2000 Discussions
> > > Subject: Veritas backup rate?
> > >
> > >
> > > Is anybody using Veritas Backup Exec 8.6 and if so, what is
> > > you approximate
> > > backup rate? (For example 30 MB/min)
> > >
> > > I seem to be getting about 10 to 15 MB /min, regardless of
> > > what type of
> > > hardware I use.
> > >
> > > Windows 2000 Server
> > > SP 2
> > > Veritas Backup Exec 8.6
> > >
> > > Dual P3 800 Mhz
> > > 512 MB RAM
> > > 2 SCSI U160 IBM Hard Drives
> > > Adaptec U39160
> > > Adaptec 2940U2
> > >
> > > Benchmark  VS Tape 640
> > >
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