Guys we have installed an Ultra320 HBA into an E220R in slot1 (66mhz) and attached dual scsi to an SL24 with 2 half heigh LTO3 drives. 1 Channel per tape drive. Single Master/Media combo
This is all on Solaris 9 with Netbackup 5.0mp7. I wont go into the details but suffice to say the customer won't spend any money on backups but of course needs them to work. We only got the new SL24 due to the previous L1000 falling over constantly and not being able to get support on it easily. Anyway... I have installed all this, but am getting quite poor speeds on backups. doing a ufsdump or tar from base os doesnt get much speed and using netbackup gets higher speeds due to :- /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS = 16 /usr/openv/netbackup/db/config/SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS = 262144 We have also added the tuning parameters into /etc/system for shared memory etc. I havn't messed with the st.conf and just let the drive do what it wants but was after any tips if that is the next area to focus on. Currently getting about 8 - 25mb/s on backups depending on amount of jobs running. e.g just doing a local backup of master server direct to the drive gets average :- r...@host-sl24# grep Kbytes/sec log.031609 15:26:35.390 [16237] <4> write_backup_completion_stats: successfully wrote 1 of 1 multiplexed backups, total Kbytes 6175485 at 10395.319 Kbytes/sec r...@host-sl24# I need to check the HBA is running at 320. I can't see any messages from dmesg or /var/adm/messages saying its been downgraded to ultra160 but it may be hidden elsewhere? Cheers _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu