On Thu, September 18, 2008 09:30, Scott Baldwin wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I saw in later emails, it did finish.  As you guessed it was down to
> having  to read through serial the STD file.  I would recommend a
> couple of things
> when creating the STD file
> 1. compress=high
> 2. maxtapebuf
> 3. use multiple storesets
>
> All above will grant little if any backup speed performance on a single
> cpu 918.  The multiple storesets should help on the random restore.

We already had two parallel storesets, I have now increased this to four. 
I also added HPMAXTAPEBUF TRUE to the job file template.  As for COMPRESS,
I believe that this option is not available unless one purchases an addon
product from HP.

Thanks for the pointers.

Regards,

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