How much of this data are you trying to send direct to tape? That's what it 
looks like your includes are trying to do, and that will obviously be slower 
that going to disk. Are you ftp'ing to disk but backing up to tape?

I think, to get all the objects (files and folders) in sys: and extravol1: to 
your tape mgmt class you need the following:

include sys:*.* tape9940
include sys:* tape9940
include sys:\...\* tape9940
include sys:\...\*.* tape9940

and the same construct for the extravol1

"Firmes, Stephen" wrote:

> I made the tcpip performance changes to the dsm.opt and I am still getting 
> slow transfer times.  I tested via ftp and was able to tranfer 40,000 files 
> in a few minutes.  So it appears that the TSM client is still not working.
>
> here are the stats from my last selective backup:
>
> Total number of objects inspected:      600
> Total number of objects backed up:      600
> Total number of objects updated:          0
> Total number of objects rebound:          0
> Total number of objects deleted:          0
> Total number of objects expired:          0
> Total number of objects failed:           0
> Total number of bytes transferred:   230.73 KB
> Data transfer time:                    0.00 sec
> Network data transfer rate:            0.00 KB/sec
> Aggregate data transfer rate:          0.21 KB/sec
> Objects compressed by:                    0%
> Elapsed processing time:           00:18:06
>
> here is the new improved dsm.opt
>
> COMMMETHOD              TCPip
> TCPSERVERADDRESS        catamount
> TCPPORT                 1500
> tcpclientaddress        xxx.xx.x.xxx
>
> txnbytelimit            25600
> tcpbuffsize             32
> tcpwindowsize           63
>
> largecommbuffers                yes
> processorutilization    15
>
> MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP   no
>
> NODENAME                  novell_test
>
> INCLUDE sys:...\* tape9940
> INCLUDE extravol1:...\* tape9940
>
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\secaudit.log
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\events.log
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\system.log
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\btrieve.trn
> EXCLUDE          SYS:\system\tsa\err$hst.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\err$log.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\skip$log.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\tsa$temp.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\sys$log.err
> EXCLUDE          sys:\_swap_.mem
> EXCLUDE          sys:\vol$log.err
> EXCLUDE          sys:\tts$log.err
> NWPWFILE YES
> passwordaccess generate
> managedservices schedule webclient
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Stephen Firmes
> TSM Engineer
> Tivoli Certified TSM Consultant
> StorageNetworks, Inc
> Work:  781-622-6287
> http://www.storagenetworks.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Flemming Hougaard [mailto:flhou AT NETVAULTING DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:59 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: SV: Sloooow Novell Backups
>
> Hi Stephen
>
> I have some general experiences with the TSM client, and here goes:
>
>  - Never use compress always!
>  - The "INCLUDE SYS:*" wont work... you have to use "SYS:...\*" - I know
> it's supposed to be the same... but it isn't!
>  - Tune on the following parameters:
>     #TXNBYTELIMIT
>     #TXNGROUPMAX
>     #TCPBUFFSIZE
>     #TCPWINDOWSIZE
>  - Set "MEMORYEFFICIENTBACKUP NO" in the DSM.OPT file (should be
> standard, but...)
>
> Regards
>
> Flemming Hougaard
> Certified Novell Engineer
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Firmes, Stephen [mailto:Stephen.Firmes AT STORAGENETWORKS DOT COM]
> Sendt: 17. maj 2002 00:03
> Til: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Emne: Sloooow Novell Backups
>
> TSM server 4.2.1.9 on Solaris 8
>
> TSM 5.1 client on Novell 5.1
>
> Backing up a volume with 500,000 files approx 1k each.  The files are
> being transfered to the tsm server approx 1/sec.  This is just a little
> too sloooooow.  When using ftp to transfer these same files, either by
> getting/putting the transfers fly.  This is leading me to believe that
> the issue is with the TSM server/client settings.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas on any settings in the dsm.opt that could be
> changed to enhance performance?  Also I want to bind all objects in two
> of the volumes to a specific mgt class.  All that is being bound to it
> is the dirs.  Long day.  What am I doing wrong???
>
> Here is the dsm.opt
>
> *******************************************************
> COMMMETHOD                TCPip
> TCPSERVERADDRESS         catamount
> TCPPORT                  1500
> tcpclientaddress    xxx.yy.z.zzz
>
> NODENAME                  novell_test
>
> INCLUDE sys:* tape9940
> INCLUDE extravol1:* tape9940
>
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\secaudit.log
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\events.log
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\system.log
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\btrieve.trn
> EXCLUDE          SYS:\system\tsa\err$hst.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\err$log.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\skip$log.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\tsa\tsa$temp.*
> EXCLUDE          sys:\system\sys$log.err
> EXCLUDE          sys:\_swap_.mem
> EXCLUDE          sys:\vol$log.err
> EXCLUDE          sys:\tts$log.err
>
> NWPWFILE YES
>
> passwordaccess generate
> managedservices schedule webclient
> ********************************************
>
> Thanks.
>
> Stephen Firmes
> TSM Engineer
> Tivoli Certified TSM Consultant
> StorageNetworks, Inc
> Work:  781-622-6287
> http://www.storagenetworks.com

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Jim Kirkman
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