Must be less than 50 GiB for NTFS?  Hm..  I came into an environment that 
had no fragment size set and it (worked) albeit-- it took 2+ hours to 
restore a single file at the end of the tape (using Linux/ext3) however.

Justin.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Martin, Jonathan wrote:

> If you are using NTFS then you size must be less than about 50GB.  NTFS
> files larger than that would error in Netbackup on my original testing.
> I'm currently using 10GB for my fragment sizes but I haven't done any
> performance testing related to other fragment sizes.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Piszcz
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> To: Mohre, Oliver
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> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Fragment Size
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>
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Mohre, Oliver wrote:
>
>> Dear NetBackup community,
>>
>>
>>
>> i have a question about the "Fragment Size" option in NetBackup 6.5
>> Windows Server 2003 environment.
>>
>> Are there any good known values for? Actually I set for all storage
>> units (diskstaging and mediamanagers) a value of 2048 MB - is this a
>> good option or is this fragment size to small?
> It depends on your dataset, I use 32 GiB personally, back in the day I
> used to use 2048 MiB but with drive backup speeds > 100 MiB/s the drive
> barely spins up for a few seconds before it has to take a moment and
> write a marker every
> 2 gigabytes, I recommend a higher value.
>
> Obviously the higher the value means the longer it will take to seek for
> an individual file so its up to you to pick a good value.
>
>>
>>
>>
>> I would be pleased about some experienced data from same environments
>> (Windows NTFS Filesystem).
>>
>>
>>
>> thanks in advance and greetings,
>>
>> Oliver Mohre
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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