What about the Full-incr-incr-incr...FULL methodology of the NDMP
protocol?

Won't you find yourself backing up and keeping identical files over and
over again?

Ben
 

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Subject: Re: netapp backup taking too long

I would upgrade your TSM server to 5.4 and use NDMP to backup the
NetApp.
With 5.4 you can do NDMP backups over the network much like a regular
TSM client.  I just did this for a customer with a million file CIFS
backup taking 8 hours, down to 2.5 hours using NDMP over the network.
No change in hardware.



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netapp backup taking too long






I have a netapp share that is being backed up through a Windows 2003
server and is taking 23-25 hours to run.  It is on a gigabit network,
processing approximately 3.9 million items.  Does anyone have any
suggestions how to accelerate this job?  Max mount points=7,
resourceutilization=7, memoryefficientbackup=no.  All of the netapp
shares back up through this one server but this is the only one that is
this large.  The sys admin setup several batch jobs that start
separately so that more than one backup can run at one time. My TSM
server is on AIX 5.3, TSM 5.3 with a 180Gb database, 87.2% utilized so I
am hesitant to do
anything that will further tax the server.   Any ideas how I can back
this
up faster without stressing the server?  Thanks.

Debbie Haberstroh
Server Administration
Northrop Grumman Information Technology
Commercial, State & Local (CSL)