You may also want to try these things (I found some of these in a forum from a search on Google):
1) On a windows system, check to see if tracker.exe is running. If it is, kill it. This will release some I/O on the filesystems. You can also check to see if it is started up at boot time and turn that off: Start->Run->msconfig (hit enter) Go to the Startup tab and uncheck the tracker.exe 2) On the client, touch the file /<Install Path>/netbackup/dont_sort_dir 3) In the client's bp.conf, add this: LOCKED_FILE_ACTION = SKIP ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edson Noboru Yamada Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 10:07 Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers A important thing to consider is file system fragmentation and number and size of files, which may impactseverely on performance. In order to check this, try to create a single big file (2 GB, for example) and create a test policy to backup only that file. Under normal conditions, on a idle system/network, you should be able to get over 50 MB/s. On 1/5/07, M S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bobby, You may also want to check if your NIC on windows server is throttled down by Windows by default. I have heard about this that Windows by default will throttle down to some very low throughput. Please check further into it. Muhammad Shafi Senior Unix Admin --------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby R Windle Sent: January 5, 2007 8:28 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup speeds Windows servers I'm curious to hear what kind of speeds (mbs/sec) others are getting backing up windows servers. Running Netbackup Enterprise 5.1 mp6 under Solaris10 on master/media servers. a. Using brocade 2g ports 48000 director. b. IBM Ultrium LTO Gen2 drives c. Sun branded Qlogic 2gb cards. single port feeding each tape drive. d. The storage on the windows servers is FC attached Hitachi Tagmastore 9990. (Very fast drive configuration.) e. Servers are HP G5's also 64 bit. Some are 32 bit. Seems 32 bit servers are actually faster. note: Some of my other backups such as Solaris, Linix and Netware can get as much as 20 mb/sec with this configuration. So why are the windows servers so slow? Any one have some kind of idea what may be a cause? Or it is what it is! Windows! Bobby Windle ( Data backup & Recovery ) W.L . Gore & associates, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cell : (302) 588-7374 (preferred) office: (302) 292-4026 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
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