On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:21:34AM -0600, Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA 
wrote:
> This worked. Took 5 hours for duplicate the tape as oposed to 12.
> 
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> Larry Kingery <larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com>
> 01/09/2002 11:07 AM
> Please respond to larry.kingery
> 
>  
>         To:     Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        Re: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate taking 14 hours?
> 
> 
> You'll probably have to tune the network buffer size (yes, I know it's
> local). 
> 
> # echo "262144" > /usr/openv/netbackup/NET_BUFFER_SZ

I can find no references to this file in documentation.
OTOH, the book form Veritas Netbackup advanced class refers to 

/usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS and
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS

So which one is correct?


> 
> And try again.  If you have a reasonable (say 1 GB) fragment size, you
> can watch the 'all log entries' report to see the throughput w/o
> having to wait for the whole thing to complete.
> 
> Note that this value is supposed to be the same on all systems.  I've
> never seen it make any difference if it wasn't, but...
> 
> 
> Larry Kingery 
>       3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.

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