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Transfer Rate for a Server With No Clients

In this case, the 216 GB per hour drives are the limiting factor, assuming that disk system or server is not the bottleneck. The system would take 5 hours to back up 1 Terabyte.

Architecture diagram: CA ARCserve Backup server communicating with a library.