Hi guys, I have a windows file server I am currently backing up that I am expierencing very low throughput on.
The volume in question is a 3.3TB partition with about 2.6TB in use. It's currently taking 66 hours to do a full of this file system to an LTO 4 tape. This is a network based backup. I've been doing tuning, and the network path is clean (The exchange server in the same rack on the same switch gets 8-9x the performance when it gets backed up) - it's gig-e all the way and is unloaded. One thing I was considering is that this may be an issue with the Virus scanner. Being a file server this contains a TON of files (9.8 million files totaling 2.9TB), and I'm wondering if the virus scanner is causing this. The tuning guide suggests I should turn anti-virus off, but my security director balked at this idea. I was wondering what some of you with "way more data" than I have do. Do you run virus scan on your fileservers? Do you back them up in a different way than I do? I need single file recovery. Any other tuning advice you can give? Jason -- Jason Slagle /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign . X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail . _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu