On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Christian Kuhtz wrote:

> Could it be that your backup strategy might be in need of tuning/revision?
> 
Not really..

> You can backup much larger volumes of data (let's say in the neighborhood of  
> a couple of TBytes) than what you classify as "much larger" in significantly  
> less time.  10G should *not* take as long as you described under any  
> circumstances (aside from improper configuration, incl. hardware).
> 
Well, as I understand it, it is Legato's index file strategy that is
killing us.

> What you need is someone who knows what they're doing overhaul your setup.   
> If you're attempting to stream 10G onto, let's say, a cheapo 4mm stacker,  
> hanging off a 486/33/16 running NT, well, you get the idea. ;-)
> 
FYI: we're using a DLT that is on an Auspex and it is backing up data
stored on the local machine.

> The statement that Legato is notoriously slow cannot be confirmed based on my  
> experience with it.
> 
Well, experiences are much akin to opinions and you know what they say
about opinions. I actually have had exchanges with people who work very
closely with Legato who tend to agree with me that they have some serious
speed and indexing problems.

rob

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