I mean to ask is Flashbackup a separately licensed feature?
On 6/13/07, Wilkinson, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you mean is Flashbackup a separately licensed feature or do you mean is there another feature that can do this? Cheers, Tim ------------------------------ *From:* Khurram Tariq [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Wednesday, 13 June 2007 3:19 PM *To:* Wilkinson, Tim *Subject:* Re: [Veritas-bu] Spam: NBU 6 Tuning for Small Files Backup Thanks. I've not used Flashbackup before so I'll have to read about it. The utilization of the file systems I want to backup goes up and down drastically (in a day) but it still worth giving it a shot. Is there a separately licensed feature? Regards, Khurram On 6/13/07, Wilkinson, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Khurram, > > Flashbackup will improve the performance (it caches the data as a sort > of snapshot then backs-up the snapshot so it's like a large file rather than > loads of small ones, or something like that....) but because it works per > volume, you need the space for the cache, which is at least the same size as > the volume you are backing-up. > > It will improve performance for loads of small files but probably won't > help too much if they are on a huge volume and they take up a small % of the > space. > > Cheers, > > Tim > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Khurram Tariq > *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 June 2007 6:07 PM > *To:* veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > *Subject:* Spam: [Veritas-bu] NBU 6 Tuning for Small Files Backup > > Hi All, > > We have just migrated to a NBU 6 SAN based environment. We have a server > with a large number of small files (100k to 4MB) and its performing quite > poorly on SAN based backup (5MB per stream). Can anyone advise some tuning > parameters to improve this speed? The library is L500 with FC LTO3 drives. > > Regards, > Khurram > > *IMPORTANT:* This email remains the property of the Australian Defence > Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES > ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to > contact the sender and delete the email. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > >
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