Is this on gigabit or 100 Base T?  If it is gigabit, something is really
slow.  If it is 100 Base T, something is probably wrong with the
calculation.  You are getting 16MB/sec.

You may consider using virtual mount points if this is a Unix host.  If it
is a windows host, think about creating a number of share points with drive
letters and back up those concurrently.  If you already have a lot of mount
points, think about increasing the resource utilization on the client.

I have a SGI UNIX client that has about 7M files in one of its file systems.
It is connected gigabit and runs a backup in about 5 hours.  Usually, it
only backs up about 15 GB per night in that file system.

Hope this helps.

Paul D. Seay, Jr.
Technical Specialist
Naptheon Inc.
757-688-8180


-----Original Message-----
From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:05 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Very long backup/So many files


Does anyone think a computer that has this many files on it, that only
backed up 12,222 files, should take over 10 hours to complete? I'm having a
problem with this node dropping out a couple of times a night for being idle
for more than 60 minutes too.

We've double checked the NIC and switch port for the proper settings. When I
looked at it last night the CPU wasn't doing anything.

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4952I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of objects inspected: 4,151,721

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4954I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of objects backed up:   12,222

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4958I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of objects updated:          0

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4960I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of objects rebound:          0

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4957I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of objects deleted:          0

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4970I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of objects expired:        386

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4959I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of objects failed:           0

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4961I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total

                       number of bytes transferred:     1.15 GB

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4963I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Data

                       transfer time:                   73.02 sec

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4966I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
Network
                       data transfer rate:        16,571.01 KB/sec

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4967I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
Aggregate
                       data transfer rate:         32.91 KB/sec

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4968I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
Objects
                       compressed by:                   19%%

10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4964I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
Elapsed
                       processing time:            10:12:51


Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
NT Systems Support Engineer
SAIC
E-Mail:    <mailto:gillg AT saic DOT com> gillg AT saic DOT com
Phone:  (858) 826-4062
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