Hi.

I have been testing Novell backups and restores using a Compaq proliant 8500 as
the client
box.
We have been seeing ok performance of approx 10 gb an hour for backups and
restores,
of 1 million objects.
This applies both to Netware compressed and Netware uncompressed volumes.
However when I try TSM client compression on a backup of a netware uncompressed
volume, the performance drops to 1 gb. an hour.
It is not a resource problem the compaq cpu is hardly stirring, but it is
definitely the TSM compression that is taking up the time (TSM tracing shows it
as 89% of the total time)
I always believed in the past that slow performance with client compression was
down to
lack of cpu on the client box, but there is cpu to spare with this
configuration.
My question is :-
Is 1 gb an hour the best performance I that I can expect using TSM compression
or can anyone think of reasons why that is all I am achieving ?

thanks




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