Good morning,
 
Same questions and more :
 
- what is "the pipe" ? (what do you use in detail to transfert the datas)
- define "tremendous" ? (a full backup may take days)
 
Didn't you think to put storage nodes in these locations ?
 
Kind regards
 

 
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:06:41 -0400
> From: Frank.Swasey AT UVM DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Question about long distance backup tuning
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> 
> Good morning, Matt,
> 
> How big is the pipe and how much data? Have you determined where the 
> bottleneck is? If you
> got 100% of the pipe between you and the remote system, how long should it 
> take to copy that
> data? Did you use bigasm to see what the network could push from the remote 
> sites?
> 
> I'm wondering if you may have fallen into the area where avamar with it's 
> client-side de-duping
> might be a good fit.
> 
> On 3/30/11 8:49 AM, Matthew Powell wrote:
> > We have been tasked with backing up servers from University of Southern 
> > California and the College Of Charleston. I work for Clemson University and 
> > we are backing up servers in both of these locations. it is taking a 
> > tremendous amount of time to get the full's completed. We have someone whom 
> > is looking into the host side setting of our Solaris 10 backup server. I 
> > was curious if there are any legato specific settings that will help with 
> > the fine tuning of backing up data from great distances. We are running 
> > Legato 7.5.3 on Solaris 10. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks 
> > for your time and have a great day. 
> > 
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