Re: Slow restoratoins when large backups are happening?

2005-10-25 Thread Leigh Reed
- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Troy Frank Sent: 24 October 2005 21:35 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Slow restoratoins when large backups are happening? What's the layout of the db volumes? ie. how many dbvol's do you have, and

Re: Slow restoratoins when large backups are happening?

2005-10-24 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 24, 2005, at 2:06 PM, Matthew Glanville wrote: ...If I cancel those backups, the data restorations start running much faster. ... Perhaps the backups are running slower, too... Consider the pathways which are common to both operations in your TSM server system: most obviously, networki

Re: Slow restoratoins when large backups are happening?

2005-10-24 Thread Troy Frank
What's the layout of the db volumes? ie. how many dbvol's do you have, and how many arrays/spindles/controllers are they spread out across? The other thing I forgot to ask before was what OS the tsm server is on. Another thing to look at is what your db cache-hit percentage is. Could be ther

Re: Slow restoratoins when large backups are happening?

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Glanville
> There's also performance internal to the tsm server to consider. > The large server backups could be monopolizing your network > throughput, scsi card throughput, pci/pci-x bus throughput, or some > combination of all the above. > System performance monitoring shows hardly any network I/O during

Re: Slow restoratoins when large backups are happening?

2005-10-24 Thread Troy Frank
There's also performance internal to the tsm server to consider. The large server backups could be monopolizing your network throughput, scsi card throughput, pci/pci-x bus throughput, or some combination of all the above. Troy Frank Network Services University of Wisconsin Medical Foundatio

Slow restoratoins when large backups are happening?

2005-10-24 Thread Matthew Glanville
Hi, I would like to know how to explain a situation in which when 1 or more incremental backups of some large 2 TB 5+ million file servers are running there appears to be an affect on any data restorations. If I cancel those backups, the data restorations start running much faster. So far my id