Well, yes it will write up to target sessions to a drive before moving
on to the next. With many clients running I see no need to set it to 1,
this option will get more streams to drives.
RFE ... Very nice RFE indeed. Sort of like they snuck a turbo on the
engine, just need to flip this secret button under the dash to turn it
on...your motor may blow up though :)
Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:43:46 -0500, Ty Young <Phillip_Young AT I2 DOT COM>
wrote:
>I talked to Support also. The engineer is going to call me back, but he
>thinks it's something that is currently an RFE that managed to sneak into
>the distribution.
>
>I tried a similar kind of backup: save -M 4 -bsomePool /some/filesystem
>and found that it split up /some/filesystem into four streams and then
>backed up all four to a single tape -- sort of pointless IMHO.
>
>So then I tried reducing the target sessions for four of my drives to 1,
>and re-ran the command. I found that I was able to back up the 167GB
>filesystem in 3 hours, as opposed to about 11, so that's pretty cool.
>
>I guess one could write a little script to set the target sessions to 1,
>then perform the save -M, then reset them back to their previous value.
>-ty
>
>Phillip T. ("Ty") Young, DMA
>Manager, Data Center and Backup/Recovery Services
>Information Services
>i2 Technologies, Inc.
>
>
>
> Robert Maiello
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> configure single saveset stream on
> multiple tapes?
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>Well I ran a save -M 2 on a directory. It makes 2 ssids on the tape and
>the nwadmin gui showed 2 sessions. I'm not sure how it split it up..I
>see one is slighly larger in size.
>
>It seems like a profound feature..I'll ask Legato why its not used.
>
>Robert Maiello
>Pioneer Data Systems-
>
>
>On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:17:22 -0400, Robert Maiello
><robert.maiello AT PFIZER DOT COM> wrote:
>
>>What? Version 7.1.x of Unix or Windows . By undocumented (never heard
>>of it) do you mean unproven/experimental? Are you using it in production
>>with anything?
>>
>>Are you saving this splits a savestream into 4 sessions as seen in the
>>nwadmin? ie..the sessions could go to seperate tapes (as the user here
>>wants)?
>>
>>It seems odd that this feature is not documented/advertised.. anyone using
>>it??
>>
>>
>>Robert Maiello
>>Pioneer Data Systems
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:47:12 +0200, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lars_T=F6rnblom?=
>><lars.tornblom AT PROACT DOT SE> wrote:
>>
>>>Hello List,
>>>
>>>In NetWorker 7.1x it exist an undocumented feture. Called MBS (Multiple
>>Balance Streams) save -M 4 /BigFileSystem , for four streams of
>/BigFileSystem.
>>>
>>>Br/Lars
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT
>>>EDU]
>On
>>Behalf Of Robert Maiello
>>>Sent: den 27 juni 2005 19:03
>>>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>>>Subject: Re: [Networker] How do you configure single saveset stream on
>>multiple tapes?
>>>
>>
>>>If the saveset cannot be split up because the directories are changing
>>>a hack could be a script that queries the volume, gets a list of say
>>>top level directories, and then uses nsradmin to modify the saveset list
>>>of the client. Finally a backup is run with this client definition.
>>>A hack in the true sense of the word..
>>>
>>>A compromise that I did on Netware once was to have 2 client definitions.
>>>One client definition is split into top level directories for several
>>>save streams.
>>>
>>>The other defintion is saveset ALL, with a directive skipping all the
>>>savesets in other definition. The saveset ALL picks up new directories
>>>that the first definition misses.
>>>
>>>The real answer is to get the saveset size down for supportablility.
>>>
>>>
>>>How many days does your 2TB saveset run? Backing up to what type of
>drive.
>>>(Just curious).
>>>
>>>Robert Maiello
>>>Pioneer Data Systems
>>>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:21:09 -0400, Raph <raph AT NETINFOSYSTEMS DOT NET>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>How do you configure single saveset stream on multiple tapes. The
>>>>majority of our data is a 2.0 tb NTFS file system. At the root are
>almost
>>>>1200 folders. This poses an issue when it comes to utilizing the 4 Tape
>>>>drives simultaneously. There is no simple way to break this up into save
>>>>sets, as they are constantly being added and removed as projects come
>and
>>>>go. Do you know of anyway to make networker use all 4 drives?
>>>>
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