2 million or so - depends on the file server, I think on average it's
close to 1 million/250G of data

On 5/25/05, Cornely, David <David_Cornely AT intuit DOT com> wrote:
> How many files are you backing up?
> This can have a huge impact on the speed of backups, especially for Windows.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Charles
> Ballowe
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 08:38
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] performance expectations
> 
> Curious what others see in backup performance on windows file servers.
> Setup -
>      Dell 2650
>      ~500GB of data
>      SAN media server
>      9840 tape drives
>      Windows2003
>      Symantec antivirus
> 
> I'm seeing only about 10-12MB/sec on these systems. The backup is
> inline copied to 2 copies and takes an annoyingly long time to
> complete. I'm wondering if anybody has a similar setup and can share
> the speeds that they see. Anybody with similar setup and no antivirus
> software?
> 
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