Due to the nature of the ufsdump basis of the NetApp NDMP backup,
12MB/sec isn't bad. An optimized legato parallelized stream would be a
different metric.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davina Treiber [mailto:Treiber AT hotpop DOT com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 1:10 PM
> To: Legato NetWorker discussion; Matthew Huff
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Slow filer backups
> 
> 
> Matthew Huff wrote:
> > 12MB/sec isn't really that bad for LTO-1 drives.
> 
> That's a matter of opinion. I'd say it's a bit poor. The 
> native speed is 
> 15 or 16 MB/s depending on brand, and it's not even up to 
> that figure. 
> In a well configured environment I have seen sustained write 
> speeds of 
> 25-30 MB/s. That's what I call not bad.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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