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Try adding the following for starters:

 TCPBUFFSIZE        32
 TCPWINDOWSIZE      63
 TXNBYTELIMIT       25600

For the INCLUDE statements, I think you want the following:

INCLUDE sys:\...\* tape9940
INCLUDE extravol1:\...\* tape9940

Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:03:08 -0400
From: "Firmes, Stephen" <Stephen.Firmes AT STORAGENETWORKS DOT COM>
Subject: Sloooow Novell Backups
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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TSM server 4.2.1.9 on Solaris 8

TSM 5.1 client on Novell 5.1

Backing up a volume with 500,000 files approx 1k each.  The files are =
being transfered to the tsm server approx 1/sec.  This is just a little =
too sloooooow.  When using ftp to transfer these same files, either by =
getting/putting the transfers fly.  This is leading me to believe that =
the issue is with the TSM server/client settings.

Does anybody have any ideas on any settings in the dsm.opt that could be =
changed to enhance performance?  Also I want to bind all objects in two =
of the volumes to a specific mgt class.  All that is being bound to it =
is the dirs.  Long day.  What am I doing wrong???

Here is the dsm.opt

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COMMMETHOD                TCPip
TCPSERVERADDRESS         catamount
TCPPORT                  1500
tcpclientaddress    xxx.yy.z.zzz

NODENAME                  novell_test


INCLUDE sys:* tape9940
INCLUDE extravol1:* tape9940

EXCLUDE          sys:\system\secaudit.log
EXCLUDE          sys:\system\events.log
EXCLUDE          sys:\system\system.log
EXCLUDE          sys:\system\btrieve.trn
EXCLUDE          SYS:\system\tsa\err$hst.*
EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\err$log.*
EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\skip$log.*
EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\tsa$temp.*
EXCLUDE          sys:\system\sys$log.err
EXCLUDE          sys:\_swap_.mem
EXCLUDE          sys:\vol$log.err
EXCLUDE          sys:\tts$log.err


NWPWFILE YES

passwordaccess generate
managedservices schedule webclient
********************************************

Thanks.

Stephen Firmes=20
TSM Engineer
Tivoli Certified TSM Consultant
StorageNetworks, Inc
Work:  781-622-6287
http://www.storagenetworks.com

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