Have you excluded .snapshots?

That may be your problem.  I had the same problem when I first set up a
backup of a NetApp over NFS.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kovar, David" <kovar AT ciena DOT com>
To: <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 10:19 AM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Incredibly slow backups of NFS mounted partitions from
NetApps.


> Good morning,
>
> I recently ran out of disk space for my NFS mounted catalogs and moved
them
> from the Sun NFS server to the NetApp. This promptly caused the catalog
> backups to go from taking a reasonable amount of time to never finishing.
A
> few tests confirmed that attempting to back up any NFS mounted partition
> from the NetApp is insanely slow. A few details:
>
> 1) The tape library is attached to the NetApp and two drives are dedicated
> to the NetApp and two are directly attached to the Sun server via SCSI.
> 2) NDMP backups of the NetApp run at normal speeds.
> 3) Client backups of other Suns and NT boxes through the Veritas server
run
> at normal speeds.
> 4) Other NFS mounted partitions do not exhibit this problem.
> 5) Reading and writing that partition with other tools - tar, for
example -
> works at expected speeds.
>
> So there seems to be something unique about backing up an NFS mounted
NetApp
> partition. Any thoughts or pointers would be most welcome.
>
> -David
>
>
>
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