Nick Rooker ([log in to unmask]) wrote: : I'm looking into various options for network backups. In particular : the use of FDDI. Has anyone used this option in a backup strategy ? : and have you figures on transfer rates , data volume, security and : performance ramifications ? There are no MPE/iX numbers, but the netperf database has some FDDI numbers for HP-UX systems with the HP-PB FDDI card. I suspect that the MPE rates would not be much higher, don't know if they would be much lower. I would probably not be as confident extrapolating any CPU utilization numbers as I would the throughput. I suspect that if folks have managed to get web servers runing under MPE/iX, that getting netperf working should be fairly straightforward. It can all be found at http://www.cup.hp.com/netperf/NetperfPage.html rick jones shameless promoter of netperf and the netperf database... :)