In the words of the EPA - your mileage may vary

From the sample you sent, I really can't tell too much.   You ran for 1 1/2
hours, and were transferring data for approximately 3 1/2 min.  I would
suspect that with 160K entries, you spend a lot of time going through the dire
ctory determining if a file needs to be backed up.  Obviously, on a restore,
this isn't an issue, especially if you say replace=all etc.

There are also many hardware related things that change - the speed of the
Server, for one, and most importantly, the speed of the network and its
protocol.  Can you give us some more info here?

In my shop, for a "typical" (if there is such a thing) server, we tell people
to expect about a GB of data restored per hour, but we also warn people this
has variables.  Our sample was based on a 66Mhz machine, with a 10Mb Ethernet
card.  Compression was approximately in the range that you saw, but of course
this depends on the mix of data seen on the server.  Also, the 1GB number is
the end result on the disk after decompression - NOT what shows in the
statistics from ADSM (which of course is the compressed amount).

Of course, theres also your network, but our tunning guy keeps telling me
that's not the problem...... One thing I would recommend, if you have a
choice, is to use the same protocol on the server that your ADSM server uses.
For example, if you connect to MVS is through an Ethernet connection - use
Ethernet on the NetWare box.  This avoids a protocol translation in a hub or
router someplace.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT itthartford DOT com
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Author: INTERNET.OWNERAD
Subject: The speed to recover a Novell file system
01-22-97 07:21 AM

          Hello,


          I have a question about speed to restore files.. My site is
          a MVS Server using TCP/IP and Novell Clients.. With normal
          throughput what should I expect to see for a normal restore
          of Novell file server containing 160,000+ files.. Here's a
          copy of the normal throughput when the system runs the
          backup. FYI there is 3 backups running at the same time on 3
          different clients..


           Total number of objects inspected:  166,449
           Total number of objects backed up:    1,657
           Total number of objects updated:          0
           Total number of objects rebound:          0
           Total number of objects deleted:        114
           Total number of objects failed:          74
           Total number of bytes transferred:     86.3 MB
            Data transfer time:                  215.31 sec
           Data transfer rate:                  410.61 KB/sec
           Average file size:                    146.2 KB
           Compression percent reduction:        65.87%
           Elapsed processing time:            1:28:58



          Any input would be appreciated..

          Thanks

          Lee Fosbrink
          Pittburgh Mercy Health System