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[Veritas-bu] NetBackup poor performance

2004-05-25 11:14:24
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup poor performance
From: brian.baldridge AT veritas DOT com (Brian Baldridge)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:14:24 -0400
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Mark,

Take a look at the NetBackup Tuning Guide:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/240733.pdf

In answer to your question about why performance parameters are not
configured up front is because of the nearly infinite combinations of
hardware/software/operating systems that NetBackup is expected to work
with.

> -----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 Mark
> Sandrock
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:23 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup poor performance
> 
> 
> I am struggling to grasp the use of NetBackup DC 4.5 on Solaris 8.
> The only server is a V480 with a stand-alone SDLT 320 and an L8 tape
> library having an LTO-2 drive.
> 
> I went through the wizard and configured things for a simple test,
> but it's really hard to tell what's going on and when.
> 
> I eventually got a manual backup to run, and was surprised to see
> the i/o to tape running about 5000KB/sec. Our current backup method,
> ufsdump, gets about 15000KB/sec. Pretty big difference.
> 
> So a Google search finds a posting from 2001 talking about an
> undocumented method of improving NBU i/o performance by creating
> files called "NUMBER_DATA_BUFFERS", "SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS", and
> "NET_BUFFER_SZ".
> 
> Are these files the way to go? And if so, why is this information
> not explained and configured right up front?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> Mark
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