Hi Paul, I agree with you on the small files and LAN-Free - BUT - we have a few Netware servers with large btrieve databases - so I'm sure there is a need for Lan-Free on Netware - bringing me to the 2nd part of Netware and backups - the unfortunate thing with Netware and small files is this: You will NEVER get even close to LAN-Free speed with the TSM client (or any other backup tool for that matter currently), when doing smaller files on Netware. It does not matter that you have a gigabit network - you will not be able to exploit it. The best speed I was able to get with average 27Kb files was 4M/bytes per second - I promise you this is as close as the IBM LABS also got to Gigabit speed on Netware with small files. The best we've seen was close to 30M/bytes per second when using larger files of 250Meg and bigger.
Your Netware modules that Novell provide for backup tools to use are single CPU bound - as are much of the rest of the OS - so your bottleneck is your CPU on Netware - and beleive me - TSM will push your CPU close to 100% if you have fast disk and fast network. Cheers Christo ========================================================================= The reality is this. File system backups of small files are not a good candidate for SAN Tape backups. Netware does not run any large file databases, so there is no SAN Storage Agent requirement. The answer is Gigabit between your TSM server and the client and let the TSM server stream the data to the tape drives. You will get as go performance, if not better than a SAN backup would ever provide. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Jin Bae Chi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 8:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LAN free backup for Novell Hi, expets, I'm trying to implement LAN free backup feature with TSM 4.2 on AIX 4.3.3 for client nodes with Novell servers. These NetWare servers are fibre connected to EMC box through SAN switches. TSM support told me there is no Storage Agent support for Netware platforms. Does anyone backup Novell servers through Fibre Channel? What would be your suggestion to backup to tape library that resides on SAN? Thanks again for your help!! Jin Bae Chi (Gus) System Admin/Tivoli Data Center 614-287-5270 614-287-5488 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ "The information contained in this communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and others authorised to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking action in reliance of the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Absa is liable neither for the proper, complete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor for any delay in its receipt, nor for the assurance that it is virus-free."
