eudonj wrote:
> Hello, 
> I have recently inherited a Networker 7.5.1 enviroment with a 3.8T 3600 user 
> home folder that recides on an NS480 with a fiber attached L700 (7drives LTO3 
> ,500 slots) Tape Library to use to back it up. The problem is that no matter 
> how my team has tried to back it up, it takes 30+ hours. I am wondering if 
> anyone else out there has a simular config that might be willing to save us 
> some brain damage of retrying every method under the sun, currently we have 
> 3600(1 per user) savesets running NDMP, which is not great but we atleast get 
> some sucess.  My other teammembers state that trying to do it as 1 saveset 
> just timeouts or crashes at 30+ hours and never finishes. We are currently 
> using checkpoints to do the daily INC then a weekly full to tape but can't 
> seem to get it in to a <23 hr window. 
> Oh and the obvious of breaking them into different file systems has been shot 
> down.
> Thanks


Is it a single 3.8 TB filesystem?  I'm backing up more than that on several 
Celerras, but my filesystems are generally <= 500GB.  I have a few 1 TB FSs, 
and they do not have any problems backing up.

How much free space do you have in your SavVol?

--brerrabbit

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