> We are running Lotus Notes on a Windows Intel box. The server is a 
Compaq G5.
> We are backing up 400 - 500 GB every night of mail files. The daily 
> & weekly backups are doing 
> disk backup - data de-duplication. The backup through put is 6 
> mb/sec to 6.5/mb/sec. 
> The monthly backups are going to LTO2 tape. Getting may be 7 mb/sec to 
tape. 
> 
> Either way backups are taking to long. ( 16 -18 hours ). 
> Any one have any creative ways I can get backups in a shorter 
> window? Looking for some 
> ideas to get the window down by 50% - 75%. 

Are you backing up directly to tape or are you going over the network?

We back up about 125gb of Notes mail files directly to LTO3 from our 
Linux-based server and average about 45mb/sec, using the Notes agent in 
Netbackup 5.1MP5. Proliant DL385.

                                                                      - 
Bluejay Adametz
 
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 and it can't walk" 
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