Somen Chanda wrote:

We have a 100MB/sec network which is used for data and backup. Our backup
server is a Sun 280R running Solaris8 and has 2GB RAM and a similar config
storage node. We have LTO1 drives in a ADIC Scalar100 library, We currently
do not see backups moving more than 11MB/sec per drive.

You need to know the difference between b and B. b is bits and B is
bytes. A 100 "meg" network is usually bits. 11MB/s is about what you
should expect.

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