MTU=Maximum Transmission Unit and is a parameter of the network card/driver.
"Kamp, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/23/2003 04:43 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject: Re: Very long Netware restore I don't the exactly what MTU means.... Basicly it is the packet size. We found this out after my network guys ran Sniffer on our network. The difference in restore tmes was 2-3 days to about 10-12 hours! Your network people should be able to give a better definition! I colocated my tapepool after my first big reatore. --------------------------------------- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (954) 987-2020 x4597 Fax: (954) 985-1404 --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: William Rosette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Bruce, I had a similar problem with 500 GB of info on 2 clients of Novell/Netware, 1 200 GB and the other 300 GB. It also took days. I was told to collocate and restore the dirs only first. What does MTU stand for? Is it a TSM client setting?, server setting? or Novell/Netware setting? Thank You, Bill Rosette Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International WWJD "Kamp, Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist Stor Subject: Re: Very long Netware restore Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 09/23/2003 03:19 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Had this problem before! It was an MTU size problem. Once that was fixed the restore flew! -------------------------------------- Bruce Kamp Midrange Systems Analyst II Memorial Healthcare System E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (954) 987-2020 x4597 F: (954) 985-1404 --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Richard Rhodes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 2:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We recently did a full restore of a Netware server. Basically, we're interested if the restore time sounds reasonable - it doesn't to us. The server that was restored is actually at a remote site from the TSM server location, but the restore was done at the TSM site, then, driven to the remote site for installation. The restore specs read like this: Compression: Files compressed using TSM client compression Size: 240gb Files: 938,617 Restore Time: 50 hours Throughput: around 1.3mb/s average speed (240gb/50hr) Network: 100MB/fdx, local to TSM server (admins checked for duplex mismatch) Tape Drives: IBM 3590 Netware Server Version: NW5.1 SP3 Dell 2650 1 - 2ghz xeon processor 2gb memory 513mb cache on processor This just doesn't sound right. After this was all done, we created a backupset to see just how fast TSM could access the servers files. Backupset Creation Time: 11 hours From Tape Drive: IBM 3590 To Tape Drive: IBM 3590 So . . . . the bottleneck doesn't appear to be the TSM server. Any thoughts as to why our restore took 50 hours??? The obvious answer is that the files had to be uncompressed on the client, but I would have thought a 2ghz processor would be able to uncompress much more than a 1.3mb/s data stream. Thanks Rick ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.