Chris_Millet wrote:
> Have you tried the backup already?  If so, what are the policy settings and 
> how fast are your drives streaming?
> 
> LTO3 is rated for 70MB/sec native..more if the data compresses well, so make 
> sure your backup server has at least 1000Mbps network connection and same 
> goes for the client.  If your drives are streaming that fast or better 
> already, you might be able to make it go faster by aggregating a second 
> gigabit link on both servers to remove that bottleneck.  Then you could try 
> to get two tape drives to do the backup by breaking up the backup selection 
> in the policy into two chunks using the NEW_STREAM directive.


After running this over the holiday and watching it it looks like I was only 
getting about 10MB/sec to the drive. I had the policy set up so that the 
selection list was the drive where the files resided with no breakouts or 
multiple streams. Both the backup and client servers have 1000 Mbps nic's so I 
don't think the network is the issue. Also other backup jobs I run can get 
close to that 70MB/sec if I am multiplexing 7-12 servers in at a time.

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