Have you considered that this might be "normal" ?

Both clients are running Informix, nice to know, but what is being backed up
?
Does the one client have a) An empty DB or b) a very compressabled DB or c)
a very young DB ?
Are the file systems similar on both clients ?
Is the disk hardware similar ?

There are many questions to be asked, to obtain a more reliable question you
should equalize the environment by doing a backup of the same DB.

Bye
Ernie

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Levitan [mailto:marc.levitan AT PFPC DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 3:42 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Slow backups


I have 1 backup that gets a rate of 28GB/hr  and another that is 43GB/hr.

Both are Solaris 6 Servers running Networker 6.1.
Networker Server is Solaris 8 Networker 6.1.

Both Clients are running Informix and both clients are storage nodes that
share DDS tape drives across the SAN.

One client is a SUN E6500 (slower) the other is a SUN E10K (faster).

Both have parallelism of 2.

What can I check to determine why one is so much faster than the other?

Thanks,
Marc Levitan
Storage Management Specialist
PFPC Global Funds Services

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