Yabron,

You sir are awesome at stating the obvious... Seriously good job.
Second... Just because you have a Ferrari does not mean it is tuned up
and has gas in it. In other words, GigE is awesome, but the CARD could
be bad or there could be trouble on the network.

I am a SNIFFER fan, hook up and test it...


EVAN,

I think the KEY to your performance was in your initial post.. "ALL
DEFAULT SETTINGS" -- Have you read the chapter on Performance Tweaking
the Networker server? I have been gone a long time, but it WAS a free
PDF file on the EMC site. I don't want to say RTFM but I think that
might be the case here.

Let us know what you end up with... /ALE

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Yaron Zabary
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:56 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Performance Tuning backup


E Gold wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I run legato 732 on win2003.
> I have 6 fiber LTO2 tape drives.
> The server has 4 cpus and 4GB ram, and 5 Gigabit nic cards in a team.
> 
> All my legato server settings are the default. Tape drive target
sessions
> is 4.
> 
> I backup my lotus server daily, its 800gb and it takes 10 hours.
> 
> How can I increase the speed of this backup with tuning legato?
> 
> I do not think the network is the bottleneck as I recently added more
nic
> cards and it didn't help.
> 
> Should I change target sessions or parallelism?

   Let's do some math:

   You do 800Gb/10h = 22Mb/s.
   GigE is 1000/8=125Mb/s.
   LTO-2 is 30Mb/s (native).

For your current Lotus needs (and some growth) a single GigE link is 
enough.

   You didn't describe how many sessions the Lotus server (or its backup

agent) can do at the same time. I would also suggest that you will try 
to monitor the performance on the Lotus server and see if you can see 
any CPU or disk I/O bottlenecks on it.
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