>Another option is to bump-up your ethernet... are you already running
a
>gigabit ethernet?  We've actually bumped up the TSM server and the
large
>unix clients to Gigabit Ethernet, and it improved the throughput of
the
>backup.
>

The 100 meg card in our TSM server is saturated during our backup
window.  We are exploring moving to a gig ethernet.  Did you see changes
in your TSM server when you went to the faster speeds?  Higher cpu,
paging?  What effects did you see in your disk/tape I/O?

David