Do you have the Veritas open file agent installed and have you rebooted? Are you running the latest service pack for whatever version client?
I backup far more than 1.4 million files here on single Windows 2000 systems with and without Flashbackup without issue. -Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Markham Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:55 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Million file backup issue Thanks for the info Bryan. I have just changed the file path to \\.\F: and ran a test and i'm still getting 'WRN - can't lock raw device for read: \\.\F: (F:) (Win32 5: Access is denied. ) I take it there's not other flash ways without advanced client license. Cheers Bryan Bahnmiller wrote: > > Dave, > > The Flash backup documentation is wrong, at least for 6.5. Instead > of using /\\.\F: I had to use \\.\F: > It will backup the entire volume. And since your "empty" space > probably hasn't been overwritten with zeros, it will take time to back > it up. It should still compress like the rest of the volume. If you > had a VTL or are using de-dupe of some sort, even that "empty" space > would probably de-dupe quite well. > > I just ran some tests. I had a 50 GB volume. I created about 9 GB of > small files, about a million or so. The backup speed would start at > about 10 MB/s and then when it hit the millions of tiny files, the > speed drastically dropped resulting in a final average of 1.7 MB/s. > However, the speed of the flashbackup of the raw volume ran > consistently at 11 MB/s, start to finish. So even though there was > only 10 GB to backup on a 50 GB volume, the 10 GB backup of files took > 1hr 44m, and the flashbackup of 50GB took 1hr 30m. > > Ideally you would want to split off the "bad" files in their own > volume, so you aren't backing up that much white space. Is it possible > to shrink it in your environment? (With W2K it may not be possible.) > I'm not sure you can do a "mountpoint" inside of a filesystem on W2K. > I know it is possible in W2003 and above. > > Bryan > > > > > > *Dave Markham <dave.mark...@fjserv.net>* Sent by: > veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > > 06/30/2009 10:14 AM > Please respond to > dave.mark...@fjserv.net > > > > To > "veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu" > <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu> > cc > > Subject > Re: [Veritas-bu] Million file backup issue > > > > > > > > > > To add.... The F:\ volume is 521gb with 134gb used. Does this mean > the raw backup is 134gb or 521 as i dont want it filling tape unnecessarily. > > Ideally i'd like to do the mount point option and have a policy > backing up the mount point of the problem dirs e.g F:\nic\lsnode but i > dont know how to make a mount point from a current directory in windows. > > Cheers > > Dave Markham wrote: > > Running Netbackup 5.0Mp7 on Solaris 9 Master server. > > > > 10 odd network based clients some windows2000, 2003 and Solaris 8,9 > > > > We are having trouble with one Windows 2000 server running Envision > > IDS software which creates millions of files under a directory. > > f:\nic\lsnode has 87gb data with 1.4million files. Luckily the > directory > > is on a separate drive than the OS so there are options (hopefully). > > > > We currently can't get a backup as it fails with Status 14 or other > issues. > > > > I'm asking for advise from windows side as i'm a Unix/Solaris engineer. > > > > I'm guessing i need to do some image type backup with flash or snap > > but i dont have the advanced client license and as i'm on v5 i dont > > see how i can get one. > > > > I've currently tried following this :- > > http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/275912.htm > > and putting /\\.\F: in the file list for a new policy with the > > problem client to do raw backup. > > > > However i get a Status1 and get the following error :- > > > > WRN - can't lock raw device for read: \\.\F: (F:) (Win32 5: Access > > is denied. ) > > > > I'm not sure why that is. > > > > Also i have not got any settings on the Client properties under VSP. > > I dont have a cache file volume list or Cache File Size parameters > > other than default. 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