Take a look at the movebatchsize, movesizethresh and bufpoolsize.  These
3 options have a direct corrolation for tape to tape copy processes.


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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Conko, Steven
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:26 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: tape-to-tape performance


we run a 3494 tape library with 3590 tape drives. after our backup are
finished, we run a backup stgpool to a copy pool on about 1.6TB of data.
as you can imagine, even with 8 drives this takes some time. are there
any server, device or other parameters we can tune to improve the
tape-to-tape performance?


steve