Our total, for backing up it about 25 gb right now. I have about 40gb of quicktime files that I back up to cd-roms though.
Excalibur Films??? http://www.excaliburfilms.com (Warning, adult site.) At 04:54 PM 4/19/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Our total backup from all servers is kissing 1TB so we had to make sure we >could squeeze as much performance as we could out of the library. We just >recently went live on it and I have already told "them" that we will have to >have another 2 drive moduls by the end of the year. > >And what does Excalibur Films do...? > > >Warren J. Bennett >Internal Systems-Peachtree Software >BackOffice Infrastructure Architect >phone: 770.724.4008 >fax: 770.724.2989 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:22 PM >To: NT 2000 Discussions >Subject: RE: Veritas backup rate? > >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 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -----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? 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