On Thu, 1 May 2008, Baumann, Kevin wrote:

> I would like to track the performance of my tape drives to see what the
> throughput is.  I am running Netbackup 5.1 for Linux (Suse) with 12 LTO3
> drives and I want to make sure I am using them to the max.  I backup
> around 40TB/day, and all the drives are used constantly, but I want to
> look for bottlenecks (if there are any).
>
>
>
> I am sure someone has done this before, I am just looking for a starting
> point.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> -Kevin
>
>

Ok the first question is:

1. You have 12 LTO-3 drives.
2. How many media servers are these on?

You would never connect more than 1 LTO-3 drive to a single 
gigabit-connected media server if you wanted maximum performance to the 
tape drive.

Justin.
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