CPU speed is important for backups but more important is the ability of the 
system to traffic the data from the network to the drives. (I/O traffic). You 
must be sure that you are using the capabilities of the system right. Put the 
nics and the fiber(or scsi) cards in a separate PCI bus.

BUT the real important consideration in CPU power and memory is the restores. 
If you want to restore a system with many small files and you don?t have enough 
power you may wait for a long time for the restore to start. This is because 
NetBackup starts to seek for the files at the database and compare them with 
other files.


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Veritas Netbackup <backupicici at gmail.com>
>  Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How important is Processing Power?
>  Sent: 22 Sep '06 21:50
>  
>  Hi Jon,
>  
>  Processing power is important, a month ago I had posted to the list and I
>  got some real good inputs from our gurus.
>  
>  We use Sun Fire 6900 server with dual core processors, by merely
>  upgrading to high clock speed processors, we have observed improved
>  performance in read writes and also avoiding the backups from aborting
>  with 155.
>  
>  We backup arnd 10 TB a day and use 4 dual core SPARC procs of 1500 Mhz. I
>  have learnt from the list and some docs that having multiple media servers
>  helps see a quantum leap in performance.
>  
>  Regards,
>  BIJU KRISHNAN
>  
>  
>  On 9/23/06, MARTIN, JONATHAN (CONTRACTOR) <[LINK:
>  mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com] JMARTI05 at intersil.com> wrote: I'm 
> speccing
>  servers etc and management ever wanting so pinch a penny
>  wants to know how important dual processors are.  Not only is there the
>  added server expense, but both Windows and NBU licenses for multiple
>  processors are more expensive.  We're looking at Intel Dual Core Xeon
>  5060s w/ 2x2MB Cache, 3.2Ghz, 1066Mhz FSB on a Dell Power Edge 2950 w/
>  4GB RAM.  I originally spec'd two processors (two dual cores) which I'm
>  certain will be quite powerful enough to drive 4 Gigabit nics to disk
>  over fiber.  But how important is it, and can 1 do the job?  Anyone
>  running anything similar?
>  
>  -Jonathan
>  
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