Ben,
If you want to collect a backup history in a database this is going to be an
issue. The more history you collect the longer any operations that use that
history will take - including decisions on which files to back up. This
isn't a bug or problem that Dantz can correct, it's simply the nature of
this kind of backup. You can minimize the impact by optimizing the backup
system for database operations - usually by adding more hard drives - but
the 'problem' doesn't go away.
It sounds to me like what you want is a simpler backup scheme that doesn't
track history.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Mihailescu
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 7:13 AM
> To: retro-talk
> Subject: Re: How Long does this take for you?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm totally with you here. My full backup takes about 30 hours on a
> weekend. Fast and straight forward, no problem. After 15-20 days of
> incremental backup to the same set, it is totally impossible to collect
> all the clients in one night. I have posted at length about this before,
> yet no real solution - other than spending a ton of money - has been
> found. I gott'a say, Dantz should realize that disk space is so cheap and
> easy to add this days, that backup software and hardware should start
> matching the price and efficiency.
>
> Ben
>
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> Ben Mihailescu
> System Administrator
> Electrical and Computer Engineering
> McGill University, Montreal, Canada
> 514.398.7467
>
>
>
> "Douglas B. McKay" wrote:
>
> > Ben,
> >
> > I have found that Retrospect spends most of its time in my nightly
> > backups processing files and catalogs, not actually backing up data.
> > I have 15 clients which are backed up by Retrospect from a machine
> > with 4 OnStream ADR 50 drives. The full backups on the weekend take
> > about 26 hours (~120GB). Nightly backups take almost 12 hours
> > (usually less than 5GB).
> >
> > Be careful about the half-million file limit. If you get around
> > 500,000 files, Retrospect has a problem with memory and dies. Dantz
> > knows about the issue and is working on ways to eliminate the memory
> > problem (at least that's what I was told several months ago).
> >
> > Anyway, the bottom line is that what you are experiencing has been my
> > experience as well (long periods "building" catalogs and things).
> >
> > It sure would be nice if my backup time could shrink and allow the
> > file copying to take place at full speed, but perhaps have the catalog
> > processing, etc. take place separately (perhaps on the client using
> > its CPU! - my backups happen after hours).
> >
> > ...Doug
> >
> > Douglas B. McKay
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Data Mgt Group
> > http://www.datamgt.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > Behalf
> > Of Ben Eastwood
> > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 5:30 PM
> > To: retro-talk
> > Subject: Re: How Long does this take for you?
> >
> > More on this:
> > Retrospect is still "building snapshot" and appears to be hogging
> > about
> > 95-99% CPU, but not stuck, really because it varies... I also notice
> > that
> > taskman reports memory usage of 86716K, which seems like a lot on a
> > machine
> > with 196 MB of RAM where the System takes up only 6364K... Any hints?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --Ben
> >
> > "Ben Eastwood" <"Ben_Eastwood/HMG/Wilson_Learning/US"@wlcmail.com> on
> > 12/04/2000 04:12:40 PM
> >
> > Please respond to "retro-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > cc: (bcc: Ben Eastwood/HMG/Wilson Learning/US)
> > Subject: How Long does this take for you?
> >
> > I have questions for y'all:
> >
> > When running a backup operation of a LOCAL disk (RAID 5 Array,
> > actually)to
> > a DLT7000 drive, I noticed that the Performance reported varied
> > widely,
> > from a high of 450MB/min to a low of 13 MB/min, and the "Time
> > Remaining"
> > would jump around pretty much based on this. Is that normal? The
> > folder I
> > backed up had over 36 GB in it, mostly little files. In fact there
> > were
> > over 300,000 files in about 10,000 folders, if that matters. Also the
> > "Scanning" before the backup took a long time.
> >
> > The actual backup took about 6 hours, and then it went into "Updating
> > catalog" for about 45 minutes and then on to "building snapshot,"
> > where it
> > is now. During these last two sections, it has said "time remaining
> > 00:00:00," but it's not really done... and the progress bar is only
> > about
> > halfway across. Is that any real indication of how much time I have
> > left?
> >
> > comments appreciated
> >
> > --ben
> >
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