I'm trying to time the speeds of my LTO-4 drives, and I am following the 
"Performance Tuning Guide". And I figured, let's time the backup of a 50G 
file. I have large databases, some 3-6 times that large.

So I created a file - d:\temp\bigasm-50G-directive.nsr - with this line:

bigasm -S50G : d:\temp\bigasm-test-50G.file

I also create a zero byte file, d:\temp\bigasm-test-50G.file.

Then, I do:

save -s admnman004 -f d:\temp\bigasm-50G-directive.nsr 
d:\temp\bigasm-test-50G.file

and it seems to do ... nothing. It completes in a couple seconds. No way 
it streamed 50G in 3 seconds ... the server log shows it wrotte all of 6K 
to the drives. it looks for all the world like the "bigasm" directive was 
ignored completely; it didn't stream anything to the tape drive at all, 
apparently.

What am I missing?

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Michael Leone
Network Administrator, ISM
Philadelphia Housing Authority
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Philadelphia, PA 19145
Tel:  215-684-4180
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