Hello list, The data center in which I work recently purchased a Spectra Logic T380 and T200 tape library running IBM LTO-4 tape drives for our local and remote site, respectively. After zoning the libraries in, installing the device mappings files from Symantec support and what not, I decided to test some backup and restores, only to get terrible throughput. My Spectra Logic field tech informed me that I should be able to expect a theoretical upper limit transfer rate of about 120 MB/s. I'm getting anywhere from 9 MB/s to 50 MB/s.
I tried adjusting the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS and NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS per the Netbackup tuning guide, and that helped me get up towards the 50 MB/s rate, but that's still a little under half what I should be seeing. I've opened cases with Symantec and Spectra Logic. The latter had me download the ITDT tool from IBM and we ran some basic tests going straight from my Linux master server to a drive on the library. We consistently achieved around 110 MB/s throughput. IBM unfortunately never wrote a version of ITDT for Tru64, so I logged a call with HP and we've been using the time and dd command to calculate how long it takes to write zeroes to a tape, like this: /bin/time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ntape/tape16_d1 bs=60k count=1361163 I've tried tape16 and tape16_d1 device special files, and we're consitently getting around 50 MB/s throughput. If I issue the same command, but of to /dev/null, the command runs in a few minutes, so I'm pretty sure my server can handle the load. My question is this: Does anyone out there use Tru64 with LTO 3 or 4 drives? If so, what kind of throughput are you getting and (if you're getting better than 50 MB/s) did you have to perform any weird voodoo to get that throughput? Thank you. - Heathe Kyle _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu