There is no "typical" MB/Hr backup rate! But You can significantly increase
your throughput by fine tuning your ADSM Server and Clients! If you go to
http://www.storage.ibm.com/software/adsm/pfguide/tgv31mst.htm you will find
the 'ADSTAR Distributed Storage Manager Version 3 Release 1 Performance
Tuning Guide'. This should help you find tune your Server and Client.

Some factors to consider: file size! Larger files are processed much quicker
than smaller files; Network Bandwidth and activity when backing up; Your
clients! How many clients and where they are located; The ADSM link above
will guide you through many of these considerations.

We are running a RS/6000 J50 with a Magstar 3570, 3 seperate applications
including ADSM. Our Client and Server resides on the J-50 so we use a
'shared memory' protocal instead of TCP/IP on our Server/Client
configurations. Below is the last few days of backup statistics. Note
though, these Stats are derived by using the 'Transfer Time (sec)' and not
the Total 'Processing Time'.

Date    Processing Time Transfer Time (sec)     Objects GB      Bytes/Sec
MB/Sec  MB/Hr
3/4/99  0:41:26 1009.05                 413             3.70    3,844,935
3.667         13200.53516
3/5/99  0:39:20 880.47                  388             3.42    4,072,972
3.884         13983.44066
3/6/99  0:32:41 163.58                  272             3.33    21,345,874
20.357  73285.24269
3/7/99  0:34:33 162.58                  114             2.92    18,832,833
17.960  64657.39943
3/8/99  30:05.0 329.89                  447             3.54    11,252,111
10.731  38631.05884
3/9/99  33:43.0 528.03                  597             3.67    7,287,983
6.950         25021.30561
3/10/99 48:59.0 1229.24                 622             4.07    3,471,824
3.311         11919.56005


John Fowler
La-Z-Boy Inc.
Unix System Administrator