Check the NetWorker Performance Tuning Guide, which is available via PowerLink.

On Mar 30, 2011, at 9:11, "Matthew Powell" <mtpowel AT CLEMSON DOT EDU> wrote:

> We have a 10 GB connection to the outside world and we have a very nice 
> connection since we are on the Supercomputing infrastructure pipeline. I am 
> just curious if there are any networker settings that will help improve te 
> speed. The data is not more than about 3 - 5 TB. Not familiar with BIGASM? 
> Thanks for your time Frank. I really appreciate it. We cannot go down the 
> avamar path. We are locked into Legato with SAM/QFS on back end. 
> ________________________________________
> From: Francis Swasey [Frank.Swasey AT uvm DOT edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:06 AM
> To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Matthew Powell
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Question about long distance backup tuning
> 
> Good morning, Matt,
> 
> How big is the pipe and how much data?  Have you determined where the 
> bottleneck is?  If you
> got 100% of the pipe between you and the remote system, how long should it 
> take to copy that
> data?  Did you use bigasm to see what the network could push from the remote 
> sites?
> 
> I'm wondering if you may have fallen into the area where avamar with it's 
> client-side de-duping
> might be a good fit.
> 
> On 3/30/11 8:49 AM, Matthew Powell wrote:
>> We have been tasked with backing up servers from University of Southern 
>> California and the College Of Charleston. I work for Clemson University and 
>> we are backing up servers in both of these locations. it is taking a 
>> tremendous amount of time to get the full's completed. We have someone whom 
>> is looking into the host side setting of our Solaris 10 backup server. I was 
>> curious if there are any legato specific settings that will help with the 
>> fine tuning of backing up data from great distances. We are running Legato 
>> 7.5.3 on Solaris 10. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your 
>> time and have a great day.
>> 
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