6.5 MByte/s continuously troughput is good and realistic, peaks of 8 MByte/s are nice to have.

Anand,

Under ideal conditions a 100 Megabit LAN will transfer data at a rate of 10 Megabytes per second (I usually see less, like 9.2 MBs/sec). So a 300,000 MB database (300 GBs) will take 30,000 seconds or 8 1/3 hours (3,600 seconds in a hour).

You can reduce the time by compressing the data before it's sent over the LAN by using compressasm. I've reduce our backup times by a few hours by doing this.

Vic

Actually if you client can push it you will get 11MB/s without any problems (at least I see that with UNIX clients). That would give you 7.5 hours. However real question how would be how much can your client push.

Hi Guys,


Thanks for the information, it really helpful.


Regards

Anand