Yes, a saveset of All on a Netware client will yield 1 savestream for each
volume;  SYS:, USERS: etc..

Since we had one big USERS volume we broke this up into its top level dirs
as savesets to get better parallelism.

That said, even with that, we were only able to achive 5MB-8MB/sec; with
a Gigabit card (apparently an older one as was pointed out in this thread).

Perhaps newer Netware servers and releases get better performance?

Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare




On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:24:58 -0600, Librado Pamintuan <LPAMINTU AT REGINA DOT 
CA>
wrote:

>Hello All,
>Is it on the design of Legato Networker that a backup of Netware server
>using 'All' produces only 1 stream and very slow (800 KB/s to 1 MB/s)?
>We have tried everything from NIC card settings to NetWare NLMs and the
>latest NetWare client pack from Legato and still we cannot get a decent
>throughput.
>Finally, we tried the hard way, split the client's savesets, instead of
>'All', we specified each directory under Vol1 which creates a total of
>31 savesets.
>With a client parallelism of 10, this gave us a throughput of 3 - 4
>MB/s, on 2 DLT 7000 tape drives, but when we bump the parallelism to 15
>so that we can use another tape drive, we have lots of 'connection time
>out' and 'connection refused' errors.
>Using this method requires diligence, because there might be a new
>directory and forgot to advise the NW admin about it and won't be
>included in the backups.
>
>Any other possible solution/idea is greatly appreciated.
>
>Environment: NW for AIX v6.1.3 (AIX O/S 4.3.3)
>Client: NetWare v4.21 (NetWare v6)
>
>thanks,
>
>
>Librado Pamintuan
>Technical Support Analyst II
>Information Systems Dep.
>Operations Group
>City of Regina
>
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