UNIX admin here. How does one turn of
VSP/VSS on Windows 2000/2003? AV?
Also does this advice only hold for
Windows 2000/2003 or for any Windows server?
We have some backups that go incredibly
slowly and I’m thinking of suggesting this to the Windows Admins here to
do some testing.
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To: 'Kevin Whittaker';
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows
Backup of C drive slow
First
thing, is to turn off VSP / VSS if its Windows 2000 / Windows 2003.
Any AV,
should be turned off.
Also
look for any large cache files created on your C: Drive - example being
vxfiVspcache_1.tmp (make sure you are set to view hidden or system files).
Any disk
I/O software should be turned off.
Also,
try a backup policy (create a test one) that does JUST the C: drive on its own
for this particular client.
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain
Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited,
B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road,
Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-eads DOT net
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows
Backup of C drive slow
Ok,
I am looking for help.
I
am running a Solaris 9 master server, with 5.1MP3. I have 8 windows
servers that I backup, 3 of them are 2000, and 5 of them are on 2003 SP2.
Well,
I setup the policy for each server to by ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, and also turned on
Multistream/Multiplex.
So
it kicks off 3 channels: Shadow, C drive, D drive.
C
drive is 2 hardware mirrored disk, D drive is a hardware raid 5 of 4 disks.
Well,
the C drive backup takes forever! As an example from 1 server....
Shadow
-- 4 mins (911,909 kbytes)
C
drive -- 2 hours 29 mins (49,461 kbytes)
D
drive -- 1 hour 54 mins (95,458,574 kbytes)
My
exclude list for this server has the standard entries and a few that I have
added.
C:\Program
Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
C:\Program
Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
C:\Program
Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
C:\Program
Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\Temp
C:\Program
Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\misc\*
*.mdf
*.ldf
C:\Windows\NTUninstall*
C:\Windows\PCHEALTH
I
am trying to figure out why it takes so long to backup the C drive.
Should I be excluding something? I am at a point that I am going to
remove the C drive from the backup. SQLSERVER is running on this box(s).
Kevin