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[Networker] Slow NDMP Backups

2010-02-08 14:10:19
Subject: [Networker] Slow NDMP Backups
From: tkutil <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:07:46 -0500
tkutil wrote:
> I am having issues with excessively long NDMP Backups on a Netapp 2050C. I am 
> running Networker 7.5 sp1. This just started happening about 2 weeks ago, and 
> since then I have tried some of the things I thought fixed this problem once 
> before. I ran a full backup starting Friday night and I still have 3 volumes 
> waiting for backup. 2 of the volumes are close to 1TB in size and at least 1 
> has limited snapshot space available. Not sure if that is the cause.
> 
> This is what I tried so far to fix the problem.
> 1. Created new clients
> 2. Made sure that I did not have mixed volumes in my save set
> 
> Any suggestions on what to try next or where to look for possible causes?
> 
> TIA


I'm running a level 1 backup on just one Qtree and tape drive is writing at 
11MB/s on LTO3 tape drive. Does that sound OK?

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