Solstice Backup 6.1 performance tuning...more info

From: Alan Rubin (rubin@frell.org)
Date: Thu May 23 2002 - 02:06:37 EDT


Since I posted the original message, I have tested the transfer rate over the
gigabit connection. I was able to do a remote ufsdump of a 33GB partition at
~11MB/S. Still only transferring at about 1MB/S per device through Solstice
Backup 6.1.

Thanks,

Alan

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Alan Rubin wrote:

> Here's the setup: E450 hooked to 2xSun L20s with a total of 4 Ultrium LTO
> tape drives running Solaris 8. This backup server is connected via gigabit
> ethernet to a server with about 400-500GB of data. When performing a raw
> local dump to the drives using ufsdump, we can get about 9MB/S transfer speed,
> but when we use Solstice to backup the one/singular client over the gigabit
> link we are averaging only about 1.2MB/S. We've increased the server
> parallelisms to the max (32), and target sessions and client parallelisms are
> set to 8. Also, savegrp parallelisms are set to 20. Any clues on increasing
> performance?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan
>
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