+1 on Flashbackup. Also see if you can get DSSU in there too- by combining the 2 we have been able to cut backup times for 1TB volumes of 11k files (average file size, disks are 98%+ full) by 75% vs standard Windows backups to LT03.
Tom Jason Slagle wrote: > 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 < at > mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
