> Goslin, Paul 
> 
> We average between 500 to 1200 KB/S for each of our two mail servers. 
> It takes a significant amount of time to backup all our mailboxes 
> (which we only do once a week on the weekends...). There are other 
> backups running concurrently also. The larger of our two mail servers 
> takes about 15 hours to backup 29 GB ; 11,523 files for 499 mailboxes.
> The smaller mail server takes  a little over 5 hours to backup 12 GB ;
> 5,372 files for 240 mailboxes...

At this moment, Networker is down (dumping indexes/config to tape for DR 
purposes) so I can't check the actual numbers, but we nightly back up 
1200+ mailboxes totalling ~380 GB (at least, that's what the savegroup 
completion report says) plus OS, etc., in 7+ hours. Those are all going to 
a single drive SDLT600 autochanger, with no other backups going to that 
device although there are many others running on the same server. What the 
reported throughput is, I don't recall, though. However, the difference in 
these numbers (vs. Paul's) makes me wonder if I missed something in the 
thread and I'm not comparing apples to apples... ?

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