We are at FP5. I think you're right about NBU building the file list
(there are LOTS
of files on this volume), so would be very happy to know what patch this
is you
talk about.
Other people have suggested disabling job-tracker, but that's not the
solution.
We enabled job-tracker only after discovering there was a problem to see
what
was going on.
thanks,
Ruben
Gary Andresen wrote:
> What is your patch level on 4.5.
> I would assume you have ten's of thousands of files on this volume, and NBU
> is building the file list. There was a patch to 4.5 that would start the
> backup before the file list was fully generated. Unfortunately I don't know
> what patch that was in.
>
> Gary Andresen
> Impossible Happens, Plan Ahead
> Pacific Northwest Data Inc.
> Tel: 503.701.5185
> Fax: 503.692.3910
> gary.andresen AT pnwdata DOT com
> www.pnwdata.com
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
>>admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ruben de Groot
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:52 AM
>>To: Coco, Samuel (Cont, ARL/CISD)
>>Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Large volume backup takes forever to start
>>
>>
>>Just checked again. Yes, even on a full backup no data is being written to
>>disk until after over an hour of making "estimations" (sais Job
>>Tracker). A tape is
>>mounted all this time but no bits are send to it until Netbackup is
>>finished estimating.
>>
>>We didn't have this problem 6 months ago (we were at NBU 3.4 then).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ruben
>>
>>Coco, Samuel (Cont, ARL/CISD) wrote:
>>
>>>The only time we seem to experience an issue like this is when we're
>>>attempting a disk to tape duplication OR if we are running an
>>>Incrementials (vs. a full) on a data set of major size. Does it take
>>>that long when you begin a full?
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>
>>>
>>>Samuel J. Coco, STG
>>>Functional Area Manager, ARL
>>>Sr UNIX Administrator
>>>BELL 301 394-1151 DSN 290
>>>CELL (B) 240 398-7121 / (H)443 496-1623
>>>HOME 410 604-2415
>>>Email scoco AT arl.army DOT mil
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ruben de
>>>Groot
>>>Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 3:51 AM
>>>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Large volume backup takes forever to start
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>This is on a NBU4.5 w2k client/mediaserver. A large SAN-attached volume
>>>with +/- 300 GB data on it takes about an hour before actually starting
>>>to write to tape. In the meantime looking at job tracker, it looks like
>>>it's "indexing" the volume or something. This is really lowering backup
>>>performance plus we have a tapedrive just sitting there for an hour
>>>every day. Anyone can explain this behaviour or better, have a solution?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Ruben de Groot
>>>TU Delft DTO-IB
>>>
>>>
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>>
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