Hi Ruud,

in the ADSM-L archives you will find a thread about backing up to disk or
tape.
The recommandation was to backup SAP R/3 directly to tape because you could
use more drives, keep the tapes streaming and avoid disk latency. 
See thread: "Backup faster to tape than disk"

Do you use caching on your disk storagepools?

Kind regards
Thomas Rupp
Vorarlberger Illwerke AG

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Von: Van Ruler, Ruud R SITI-ITDGE41 [mailto:ruud.vanruler AT SHELL DOT COM] 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 18:16
An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Betreff: fs backup versus database backup


Hi

FS backup:
 Network data transfer rate:        56,265.13 KB/sec i.e. 56Mb/sec
starttime 02:30 endtime 02:55
ANE4961I (Session: 4073, Node: RYSAP380)  Total number of
                       bytes transferred:   396.77 MB


Database backup:
BKI1215I: Average transmission rate was 97.247 GB/h (27.661 MB/sec).
starttime 20:00  endtime 23:40
BR061I 471 files found for backup, total size 360069.555 MB

Both backups go over Gb links
Why FS backup faster than DB backup , i would expect the other way around ??


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