import will usually take significantly longer then an export, because with an import it's constantly opening database indexes and creating rows. Plus the tape drive maybe a huge bottleneck as well as the disk attributes of your destination storage pool for the import (if it's disk).
--Justin Jesper Bidstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: "ADSM: cc: Dist Stor Subject: Time for IMPORT with TSM 4.2.2 ??? Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .EDU> 09/22/2002 11:29 AM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" Hey "out there" Have anyone any experinces in how long time IMPORT'ing data for a node takes ?? We are using a IBM3583 wiht ULtirum drives. ( 50GB/hour ) on a Windows2000 platform The EXPORT was about 7 hour and that is ok for 320GB of data ( 4 tapes compressed) This is our first BIG IMPORT, so I dont know what to expect ??? Is there any parameter settings witch coud incresse the IMPORT time ?? Tanks to all the great TSM-Guru's !! /Jesper Bidstrup eterra