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"Captain Obvious" <someone@somewhere.net> wrote in message
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> I am currently running Arcserve 6.61 and I have an Exabyte M2 drive. When
I
> backup my fastest fileserver with only source files selected (we are a
> development shop), I get an average of 7 to 8 megabytes per second.
>
> HOWEVER
>
> We had a lot of activity on this particular server during the backup the
> other day, and the server was pumping out 65 megabytes per second to my
> client computer (amazing, eh?). With all the clients involved and the
backup
> running at the same time, this is an extremely random access pattern too.
>
> Obviously, the Arcserve agent is a stupid single threaded process and it
is
> a MAJOR limitation. It is a big improvement over using regular SMB
> transfers, but it isn't even close to being capable of using the potential
> of the server.
>
> People say the fileservers are the limitation, not the tape drives. But it
> looks to me like the backup software is the limitation, since my server
can
> spit out data faster than any current drive can handle (again, even with a
> random access pattern).
>
> Does anyone know of backup software that will take better advantage of my
> hardware? I'm guessing it would have to have a multithreaded client that
can
> request data of more than one file at the same time, or have two jobs
> backing up two different datasets on the same server at the same time.
>
> Anyone?

You may want to try Bakbone NetVault. Free eval can be downloaded from their
site. I've had good luck with them.

Rob