| Rob Turk 2004-05-23, 12:16 pm |
| "William Kossack" <kossackw@njc.org> wrote in message
news:40A1415A.92D41D1A@njc.org...
> We have Backup exec 9.1 installed on a Dell poweredge 650 with a
> powervault 112T DLT and a DLT 160 Tape drive. This is supposed to be
> 2.4 Gigahertz computer but the performance when BE is running is
> sluggish.
>
> For example if the tape drive is doing anything even something as simple
> as opening windows explorer can be slow.
>
> We've tested BE 9.1 on an older server (dual 800 Windows 2000 server)
> and it appears to perform faster than the 2.4 gigahertz poweredge.
>
> anyone have similar problems?
>
If you're using an Adaptec SCSI adapter for your tape drive, make sure you
get the latests updates.
Besides that, monitor the I/O rate on your system disk, see if any I/O queue
builds up. If it does, get a separate fast disk to put BackupExec and it's
index data on.
Rob
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