Hi Richard, I don't have any personal experience with journaling, but based on the documentation, your setup looks like a good candidate. Since less than 1% of your files change, I'm guessing you'll see a nice drop in elapsed processing time, and an increase in data_transfer_time / elapsed_processing_time. I'd certainly be interested to hear the outcome.
Regards, adam "Dearman, Richard" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: > Subject: Slow backup performance Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] T.EDU> 01/29/2004 12:01 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" I backup 10 win2k servers all with about 150GB of files consisting of 5 million+ files and about 14,000 files change per day per server. With the current 5.2 tsm client loaded it is taking about 25+ hours to backup. Is there anyway to speed this up? I tried LVSA and it didn't work because the agent needs an idle period of time before it can take the snap shot which these servers are always busy and our Win2k servers use HP secure path to access san storage. And the LVSA agent seems to cause the system to hang while trying to perform a snap shot on the san disk. I was thinking of using Journaling. Is that a good option for this kind of setup. Thanks ***************************EMAIL DISCLAIMER*************************** This email and any files transmitted with it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of th individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the e-mail to the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify the sender or contact Health Information Management 312.413.4947.