Performance
Use this property page to set preferences that affect performance for legacy backups.
- DP Buffers
- Specifies a number in the range 2 - 8 that specifies the number of communication data buffers that Data Protection for SQL Server uses when it transfers data to the Tivoli® Storage Manager server. Each buffer has the size that is specified by the DP Buffer Size option. This option applies only to legacy backups.
- DP Buffer size
- Specifies the size of the buffers that are used by Data Protection for SQL Server to transfer data to the Tivoli Storage Manager server. This option applies only to legacy backups. Specify a value in the range 64 - 8192.
- SQL Buffers
- Specifies the number of communication data buffers that Data Protection for SQL Server uses when it transfers data between the SQL Server and Data Protection for SQL Server. Each buffer has the size that is specified in the SQL Buffer Size option. This option applies to legacy backups only. Specify a value from 0 to 999.
- SQL Buffer size
- Specifies the size of the buffers that are used by Data Protection for SQL Server to transfer data from the SQL Server to Data Protection for SQL Server. This option applies only to legacy backups. Specify a value in the range 64 - 4096.
- Stripes
- Specifies the number of data stripes to use in a legacy backup
or legacy restore operation. Specify a value in the range 1
- 64. The default value is 1. This option applies to legacy
backup and restore operations only.
When using a multiple stripes number for legacy backups, and setting the Verify Only parameter to Yes to restore the legacy backup, the number of stripes for legacy restore should be equal or greater than the number of stripes for the legacy backup.