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[Veritas-bu] too many tapes?

2003-12-02 10:38:24
Subject: [Veritas-bu] too many tapes?
From: alevin AT audible DOT com (Adam Levin)
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 10:38:24 -0500 (EST)
I'm trying to do a backup, and it seems to be taking more tapes than I
expect it should.

Here are the details:
NetBackup Data Center 3.4.1
Solaris 8 master and media servers and clients
DLT tapes, 35GB capacity

I'm backing up this client:
[12:07:49]root AT cdl0 DOT prod:/root$ df -k
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d0        15334747   3440095  11741305  23% /
swap                   2269672        16   2269656   0% /var/run
swap                   2293432     23776   2269656   1% /tmp
/dev/md/dsk/d10       17413250   2829368  14409750  16% /opt/apache
/dev/md/dsk/d30      121878754  90953189  29706778  75% /audiblewords/downloads
/dev/md/dsk/d50      818335041 788567840  21583851  97% /cdl0/bk
/dev/md/dsk/d60      400461265 330097552  66359101  83% /cdl0/content
/dev/md/dsk/d20       34820241    239462  34232577   1% /opt/apache/logs
auspex:/auspex/content 20965708    123653  20632397   1% /auspex/content
auspex:/auspex/vol02 501558096 375170952 121371563  76% /auspex/vol02
auspex:/auspex/vol00 501558096 449135476  47407039  90% /auspex/vol00
auspex:/auspex/tmp   225766096      2592 223505843   0% /auspex/tmp
auspex:/auspex/vol04 501558096      5324 496537191   0% /auspex/vol04
auspex:/auspex/vol03 501558096      6696 496535819   0% /auspex/vol03
auspex:/auspex/vol01 501558096 448260064  48282451  90% /auspex/vol01
[09:47:06]root AT cdl0 DOT prod:/root$

I've got the class set up as follows:
"Active" and "Follow NFS" are checked, all other choices (compression,
cross mount points, etc) are unchecked.

The file list to back up is:
/
/opt/apache
/opt/apache/logs
/auspex/content
/auspex/vol00
/auspex/vol01
/auspex/vol02
/auspex/vol03
/auspex/vol04

By my calculations, those filesystems total 1,279,211,090k, which is
1,249,229MB=1,219GB.
1,219 GB / 30 GB per tape = 40.63 tapes. (bpmedialist is reporting I'm
getting roughly 31GB per tape for those big "volxx" volumes -- it's already
compressed audio data).

However, I've used over 80 tapes already, and the backup isn't finished
yet.  I don't understand why it's taking so many tapes.  These are fresh
tapes.

Any ideas?

Thanks very much,
-Adam



Adam Levin, Senior Unix Systems Administrator | http://www.audible.com/
Audible, Inc.
Wayne, NJ, 07470            Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? 
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