I'm interested in determining if etherchannel and EBU/TDP for Oracle, might
be effective in reducing backup times.

Client system: AIX 4.3.3, uses Oracle 7 and backs up using EBU via TDP for
Oracle 2.1
Server system: AIX 4.3.3 and TSM Server 3.7

Network interfaces today are 100 MB ethernet, a single adapter in each
system.

Proposal is to speed up backups by using 4 ethernet adapters in both the
client and the server and use Etherchannel. 4 parallel sessions would be
set in the EBU script. A much larger database will be implemented shortly
and etherchannel looks attractive, providing TDP for Oracle will use 4
concurrent sessions, which I think it should.

Can anyone confirm that the above should be a workable solution? Is anyone
doing this?


Thanks people,

Eric Winters