Another way of increasing performance is backing up by quota tree rather than 
by volume. Rather than use ALL in your saveset, use 
/vol/vol0/etc
/vol/vol0/quota_tree_01
/vol/vol0/quota_tree_02

Each line in the saveset will start a seperate session, increasing 
parallelization.
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> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Fazil Saiyed
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:43 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] backup of nas shares...
> 
> Hello,
> The fact that you are able to backup some file systems leads 
> me to believe 
> the configuration is almost correct and the time-outs  on the 
> group is 
> causing the backups to fail.
> Also note that NDMP only supports level backup to my 
> knowledge, forcing 
> incremental via group attribute may  result in FULL backups.
> I am glad you have a completed backups, make sure you also 
> set correct 
> application parameters in client attribute, this are documented under 
> admin guide.
> HTH
> 
> 
> 
> Yaron Zabary <yaron AT ARISTO.TAU.AC DOT IL> 
> Sent by: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
> 02/19/2008 03:19 PM
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> Subject
> Re: [Networker] backup of nas shares...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> tkutil wrote:
> 
> > 
> > We just got our first filer. It is Netapp and I am using 
> Networker with 
> NDMP and not having very good luck so far. I was just 
> wondering about your 
> comment about netapp/networker combination. My tape drive is 
> attached to 
> my windows networker server. Most times when I run a backup a 
> few volumes 
> will complete successfully and then it seems that something 
> goes to sleep 
> and the tape device sits at writing/idle.
> 
>     NetApp's dump command can take a lot of time before it will start 
> sending out data. The time is proportional to the number of 
> files on the 
> volume. On a volume (connected to a FAS3050) which had ~5M files the 
> backup failed when the group inactivity time was 120 minutes 
> and I had 
> to set it to 0 before I could get the volume to run full backups.
> 
> > 
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