>Another option is to bump-up your ethernet... are you already running a >gigabit ethernet? We've actually bumped up the TSM server and the large >unix clients to Gigabit Ethernet, and it improved the throughput of the >backup. >
The 100 meg card in our TSM server is saturated during our backup window. We are exploring moving to a gig ethernet. Did you see changes in your TSM server when you went to the faster speeds? Higher cpu, paging? What effects did you see in your disk/tape I/O? David
