Have to tend to agree with chris - I have policies with low performance spec
clients and many with a high spec and high bandwidth performance - they
certainly complete just as quick (even if the slow clients are not being
backed up).

So, I do not think the speed of the data throughput is caused by slowness of
a client or clients with lower hardware or network specification.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Freemantle [mailto:chris at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk] 
Sent: 27 November 2006 17:01
To: Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-3 and MPX


At 8:17 am -0800 27/11/06, Darren Dunham wrote:
>  > So what happens on the drive side if I have MPX set to 3 and then 
> start a
>>  backup of 2 clients that can push data fast and 1 client that are 
>> really  slow?
>>
>>  Is it the slow client that decide the speed of the drive then and 
>> make it  stop/rewind/paus etc. and the other clients have to wait for 
>> the slower one?
>>
>>  Thanks and regards,
>
>Good question.  I don't often run NetBackup with MPX, but I can tell 
>you that on Networker, the slow one doesn't slow anything down and I 
>expect the same is true on NetBackup.  There it's just buffering data 
>from the clients.  If one client is slow, it doesn't contribute as much 
>to the buffer, but that doesn't affect the overall throughput much.
>
>--
>Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
>Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
>Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
>          < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. >


That's my experience as well, the fast ones go quickly and the slow 
ones don't. The slow ones don't impact the fast ones (as a first 
approximation). We multiplex a lot (32). This allows data to be fed 
to the tape as quickly as possible, even if some of the clients are 
slow. We still tend to get one or two slow clients at the tail end of 
the backup of course, but there's little we can do about that. The 
worst example was when we had some networking issues, and one client 
was going at all of about 100kBps. That was painful.

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