You may also want to look into using streaming for your larger servers that
will write data to multiple drives in parallel - be careful with this though
if you have several mount points on one physical drive. In that case you
don't want to use streams as it would actually slow down your backup jobs.


-----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 Dave 
Markham
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 12:00 PM
To: Ray.Hill AT ny.frb DOT org
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] **** Newbie Needs Assistance ****

Ray.Hill AT ny.frb DOT org wrote:

>
> I have a master/media server; Solaris 2.8 64 bit running  NBU 5.1 MP2.
> I keep loosing backups due to running past start window.
> I don't have 24/7 Operations.
> Does anyone out there have any solutions/suggestions/scripts /Free Gas 
> tickets :-) that I can use.
> Other than setting Media Mount Time and Global attributes; ie: 
> Schedule attempts.
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.
>
> Ray H.
>
Do you mean your jobs kick off but you have so many that they run over the
backup window?

Have you set you backup window start and duration times in the schedules
option of your policy?

You could start to look at multiplexing to stream multiple backups to the
same media and drive. In order to do this you will need to increase the
maximum backup jobs per drive setting in the storage unit.

Some areas to look into.

Download the admin guides from veritas support site.

support.veritas.com as they certainly help.

Cheers
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