Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] dedicated backup network

2005-04-13 16:57:56
Subject: [Veritas-bu] dedicated backup network
From: ewilts AT ewilts DOT org (Ed Wilts)
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:57:56 -0500
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:37:43PM -0400, Paul Keating wrote:
> For you guys running private GigE backup LANs....what kind of throughput
> are you getting from windows clients to your backup server?
> 
> I'm maxing out at about 60MB/s for mail (backing up full SG.....small
> number of big files)
> And about 40ish MB/s for file servers (large number of small files)

My tape drives (SDLT 220) aren't that fast :-(.  I'm lucky to get
10MB/second per stream from my Exchange servers and they're amongst the
fastest servers I've got for backup performance.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org