I got ours down from about 6-7 hours to 2.5 by changing the filesystem the
catalog was sat on, from a strange mish-mash of RAID5 & concatenation
(goodness knows how it got to that state) to a clean mirror.  It's about 60
Gb.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Jackson [mailto:markj AT deakin.edu DOT au] 
Sent: 19 October 2004 04:39
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog backups take too long!!


Hi there,
    Catalog backups are taking in excess of 4 hours to complete (often 
takes much longer.. up to 10 hours).  We are running NB 5.1 on Solaris 
9, connected to an ATL P7000 changer unit.  The catalog is around 70 GB 
in size, with /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images containing aprox. 63 GB of 
data.  Normal backups are functioning OK.
    Any hints as to why this is taking so long would be appreciated.

Thanks, Mark
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