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William Kossack

2004-05-23, 12:16 pm

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?

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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