[Veritas-bu] Preemptive scheduling
2000-10-17 15:56:16
Add GigE. Now. :)
It takes me 14 hours to accept 3TB nightly on a machine with GigE. I can't
imagine doing that on FE in less than the xmas shopping season. :)
JF
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 03:42:37PM -0400, Ravi Channavajhala filled up my inbox
with:
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, McMurphy, Tim wrote:
>
> Tim>If your full backups are taking more than 24 hours its time to get more
> and
> Tim>faster hardware (ie network, tape drives, slaves etc). Management loves to
> Tim>hear that :)
>
> This is frequently one of the arguments, I come across. I'm in a
> situation exactly as the original poster of this message. My full backups
> run for too long and my incrementals start while full bkups still in
> progress. I have a STK-9710 silo, and E-4500s as the backup servers and
> backing up 300 machines (all servers) with data equalling 4-5 TB. My
> network setup ain't bad. I would be hard pressed to believe that I need
> more (OK my be Gigabit Ethernet, or trunking).
>
> For the record, I activated MPX too. Still, I haven't gotten a
> satisfactory level of performance. I have to try other options
> like run Sun's SRM type stuff and figure out. My argument is, just
> adding "better" hardware is never a full solution, at best partial.
>
> -ravi
>
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