Sherry, what kind of performance are you getting in this configuration? We startde with one 3590 but went to Quantum DLT-7000 drives from a cost standpoint. I'm getting 245 GB of R/3 (oracle) backed up to five drives in 3.1 hours during my off-line backups. We're also seeing our database grow at about 640 MB per day, and I'm figuring I'll need more tape drives next year.

I've got two drives on each of my F/W SCSI adapters, FWIW.

TomK

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From:   Sherry Jackson[SMTP:Sherry.Jackson AT TORO DOT COM]
Sent:   Monday, September 21, 1998 3:40 PM
To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject:        Re: AIX Server Configurations -Reply -Reply

How's your throughput on those adapters?  Do you think they are a
bottleneck with that many tape drives on one adapter?

We currently use 4 tape drives to complete our offline backup of R/3
and want it to go as quickly as possible, and when the new drives
arrive we want to improve the performance, of course.

Sherry