Marcel,

I have created the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS file and entered the contents below 
and my backup is now running. Thanks.

I will increase this file in multiples of 1024 bytes to get the optimum 
performance from my drives.

Thanks again

Ian

Drunen van, Marcel wrote:

>Ian,
>
>Create that file with the desired contents, which should be 32768
>(32x1024) in your case.
>
>CU,
>
>Marcel
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Whitt [mailto:ianw AT fjserv DOT net] 
>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 5:06 PM
>To: Drunen van, Marcel
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] media write error 84
>
>Drunen van, Marcel wrote:
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>>Ian,
>>
>>I was assuming you are on a Windows platform, is that correct?
>>
>>CU,
>>
>>Marcel
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Whitt [mailto:ianw AT fjserv DOT net] 
>>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 4:54 PM
>>To: Drunen van, Marcel; veritas-bu
>>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] media write error 84
>>
>>Drunen van, Marcel wrote:
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>>>Ian,
>>>
>>>I recall having had this problem a long time ago. How much memory is
>>>      
>>>
>in
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>>>your system and are you using the /3GB or /PAE switches? IIRC we had
>>>this problem on a W2K system with 16 GB of memory, there was some sort
>>>of error that caused the buffer size to be very weird.
>>>
>>>CU,
>>>
>>>Marcel
>>>
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>>Marcel,
>>
>>The server has 8GB of memory, I am not sure what the /3GB or /PAE 
>>switches are that you are talking about.
>>Can you explain these for me please ?
>>
>>Can you advise me how to change the buffer size ?
>>
>>Rgds,
>>Ian
>>
>> 
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>>    
>>
>Marcel,
>
>I am using W2K yes, if i create the SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS file will NB 
>resize the file to whatever it requires ?
>
>I have the tuning guide for NB 4.5 on windows which I can currently 
>looking through
>
>Thanks,
>Ian
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