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Tape backups, how long, how much data and how fast RRS feed

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    Hi,

    I am backing up 6 Protection Groups that make around 100 tape jobs. I want to find out how long the backup jobs are taking, how much data they're backing up and the throughput.

    I was testing this a few weeks ago and then had to put the test on hold. I am sure it was taking around 16 hours using 2 drive to back everything up, but now it is taking 24 hours. I need to see what changed. I am sure we have added data, but not enough to make it 8 hours slower.

    Best wishes

     

    Michael

     

     

    Saturday, October 23, 2010 1:43 PM

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    Look at the data transferred of tape jobs in monitoring.  Divide that by the time taken and you have your throughput for that item.  I am backing up about 5 TB of data over a 16 hour period to two LTO4 tapes.  The source storage volume raid topology is extremely important in the performance of getting the data to the tape drive.  I am using Raid 10 SATA drives (4) to see about a 160 MB/s to my tape drive.  Tape only jobs (network source) and single disk sources are at about 80 MB/s.

     

    Tuesday, October 26, 2010 2:50 PM