We plan to establish a central backup service, where we control all
the backups of the clients from one central point, respectively the
backup server. Currently we have the problem that we want to save
the datasets of a large client, i.e. an SAP/R3 database server
approximately 30GB, were we have the bandwith on the network with
FDDI but only a Exabyte EXB-480 jukebox which has 4 tape drives,
capable of 0.5-1MB/sec. So we consider to transfer the data in
parallel to all four tape drives (possible with a small disk
storage pool for data caching).

How should we do it? We considered using several schedule processes
on the client side, but we are uncertain how to control the whole
thing.

Thanks for any help

Andreas Floeter

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                        Andreas Floeter
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