HI,

With many small files this performance is not quite bad, but I think
you should tuning you system. What kind of library you're using? Is
compression set to enabled at drive and client level? If yes do not
use this.

Üdv,
 Sótonyi Attila                          mailto:sotonyi AT mavinformatika DOT hu
 Certified TSM 4.1 admin
 MÁV Informatika Kft.
 Tel.:06(1)457-9372


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> Hi.
> Hi.

> I have been testing Novell backups and restores using a Compaq proliant 8500 
> as
> the client
> box.
> We have been seeing ok performance of approx 10 gb an hour for backups and
> restores,
> of 1 million objects.
> This applies both to Netware compressed and Netware uncompressed volumes.
> However when I try TSM client compression on a backup of a netware 
> uncompressed
> volume, the performance drops to 1 gb. an hour.
> It is not a resource problem the compaq cpu is hardly stirring, but it is
> definitely the TSM compression that is taking up the time (TSM tracing shows 
> it
> as 89% of the total time)
> I always believed in the past that slow performance with client compression 
> was
> down to
> lack of cpu on the client box, but there is cpu to spare with this
> configuration.
> My question is :-
> Is 1 gb an hour the best performance I that I can expect using TSM compression
> or can anyone think of reasons why that is all I am achieving ?

> thanks




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