Veritas improved buffering/blocking in a recent release, but I forget 
just which one.  Either number of hours seems like an ugly-long time to 
me!   Add to that that Veritas would like for you to have a quiet system 
during catalog backup, and there's a problem!

cheers, wayne

Myhuong Lam wrote, in part,  on 2/1/2005 11:35 AM:

> 2. I am backing up my catalog to disk and it is taking extremely long for it 
> to 
>    finish. Before it is taking around 17-19 hours now it is taking 24-25 
> hours. 
>    Anyone out there seeing poor performance in catalog backup to disk and if 
> so
>    how to improve its performance?
>  
>