>>>We have started backing up the Netware Servers on our network 
>>>which are all at 5.1.. we are currently on TSM 4.1, the incrementals 
>>>are working ood not a lot of problem there.. But when it comes to 
>>>archiving the Groupwise volumes it takes a long time.  same with 
>>>when it expires the files.. there is about 12.8 gig but this is made 
>>>up of a lot of small files. Is anyone archiving Groupwise off of a 
>>>Netware server and is there a way to speed up the archiving of a 
>>>lot of small files.?
>
>>Do you shut down the Groupwise app during archiving? If not, the fact
>>that Groupwise keeps a lot of its files open would cause multiple
>>retries on backups and archives.
>
>The Groupwise is shutdown at 11pm and starts backup up at 5am. 
>The archive starts at 11:15.. and is still running at 8 in the morning.. 
>I usually have to stop it manually.. 

You can run resourceutilization at a setting greater than the default
(2) to get multiple backup threads running. That would speed things
up. If that's not an option, you need to consider more resource for
backing up data that needs more resource.

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Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)