Hello,

i think i have a performance problem with an NT4-Server. I use
BackupExec8.6 with an HP DLT 80 GB and and 200GB IDE-Harddisk.

Settings:
-Overwrite all
-no data-comparision
-use hardware-compression

For a backup with 65 GB the server needs 7-9 hours. The Backuptime
depends from the tape i use. I think, some newer tapes need 7 hours
and some older tapes need 9 hours.

Are 7 hourse for 65 GB okay and when not, what settings can i change
or which hardware-settings do i have to control.

Thanks

Christian

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Well I'm not certain about your type of tapes or drive, but one of my
installs has 5 20Gig DDS-4 tapes, I have jobs running on them for two nights
before they are changed, and the backups run on each night for between 8 and
10 hours, so assuming that it normal for mine I don't think you have much to
worry about.

If you need more speed I'd suggest moving to something like LTO, which is
way faster, at something like 300mbs, which gets interesting when you
backing up over a network, so you need to switch to gigabit networking just
to allow the drive to work at full performance.

Keith

"Christian" <christiansmidt@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> i think i have a performance problem with an NT4-Server. I use
> BackupExec8.6 with an HP DLT 80 GB and and 200GB IDE-Harddisk.
>
> Settings:
> -Overwrite all
> -no data-comparision
> -use hardware-compression
>
> For a backup with 65 GB the server needs 7-9 hours. The Backuptime
> depends from the tape i use. I think, some newer tapes need 7 hours
> and some older tapes need 9 hours.
>
> Are 7 hourse for 65 GB okay and when not, what settings can i change
> or which hardware-settings do i have to control.
>
> Thanks
>
> Christian

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