Also, are you sure you can read the data off of disks any faster? I'm not sure what the equivalent cmd would be on Windows, but on Unix I'd try a "dd if=<file> of=/dev/null bs=128k" (or some variant) and see just how fast the data can be read from the drives.
Rick "Allen S. Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: To Dist Stor ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Manager" cc <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> Subject Re: Win2K3 backup performance 02/01/2008 09:57 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> >> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:39:49 -0800, Larry Peifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The fastest backup I can get from a Win2003 server, TSM 5.4.0.4 client, to > an AIX TSM server, 5.4.0.0 is 17Mb/sec. over GigE with a dedicated 2nd nic > for backup only. I'd like to hear from others who are getting better > speeds and what tuning can be done. That's 3000 files averaging 100Mb > each so it takes about 4.5 hours to transfer about 300 Gig. May be obvious, but have you ruled out throughput bottleneck on the TSM server? Are you writing to a contested disk pool, etc? Or if it's tape, are you in a sour spot w.r.t. streaming, perhaps shoeshining? - Allen S. Rout ----------------------------------------- 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.