Ok ok, enough with all the winblows bashing. =P
 
We're running something similar to your config here.
 
MCData 4700 SAN Switches
HP LTO3 Drives
Qlogic 4Gb cards
FC Attached Hitachi AMS500 (Next get Tagmastore I think)
Dell 2950's
 
The best backup times I've seen over gigabit to gigabit Ethernet are
45MB/sec.  But your configuration and data contents are going to vary
that number greatly.  Using the same hardware and configurations I've
got all kinds of windows boxes that run at all kinds of different
speeds.  I'm having trouble getting my file servers better than 20MB/sec
because of all the small files, but my Oracle Database servers easily
push 30MB/sec or better.  My fastest backup is an Oracle DB and I think
with SAN tuning I can get that into the 60MB/sec range.
 
-Jonathan

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Bobby R
Windle
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 8:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers



I'm curious to hear what kind of speeds (mbs/sec) others are getting
backing up windows servers. 

Running Netbackup Enterprise 5.1 mp6 under Solaris10 on master/media
servers. 

        a.        Using brocade 2g ports 48000 director. 
        b.        IBM Ultrium LTO Gen2 drives 
        c.        Sun branded Qlogic 2gb cards. single port feeding each
tape drive. 
        d.        The storage on the windows servers is FC attached
Hitachi Tagmastore 9990.  (Very fast drive configuration.) 
        e.         Servers are HP G5's also 64 bit. Some are 32 bit.
Seems 32 bit servers are actually faster. 

note:         Some of my other backups such as Solaris, Linix and
Netware can get as much as 20 mb/sec with this configuration. 
        So why are the windows servers so slow? Any  one have some kind
of idea what may be a cause?  Or it is what it is!  Windows! 

Bobby Windle ( Data backup & Recovery )
W.L. Gore & associates, Inc.
bwindle at wlgore.com
cell : (302) 588-7374 (preferred)
office: (302) 292-4026
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