whats the overhead backing up to tapes

[banalas]

we have tape library attached to server and we have a database server(125 GB data) or on the same network and on the same switch with 100Mbps
what my backup administrator is complaning about is its taking 7 hrs to bakup, evn though he as tapes which can write at 24MB data in a second.
i just want to know wether its network problem or overhead in writing to tapes

Please help

Thanks
Sridhar

 

[xmario2013]

so does your backup administrator and network adminstrator works together or are they the same person ?


to my opinon, 7hrs to backup 125GB is pretty fast ! it took us the same time to backup less than half of the data, was that faster before ?

but I dont know anything about your hardware,

I would call the tape library vendor and the server vendor see if that is a good speed

you have to find out weather there is a bottle neck in the user (ie. they are using the data while its backing up)

or the bottle neck could be on the tape drive itself, is there a new driver for the controller card for download ?

hope this helps
XM

 

[Vela]

That is fairly good, what's the problem with a 7hr backup?
125gig in 7hrs is alright

We can backup over 100 gigs in 6+ hours