Hi,

I'm also interested in this since we've noticed the same behaviour on our
NDMP backups. Dedicated storage unit and media server.

/Steve
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, David Chapa wrote:

> Another thing to look at is the MAX JOBS PER CLIENT...You can set this
> globally, or you can use the CLI bpclient to set it for individual
> clients.
>
>
>
> David A. Chapa * Technical Advisor, Technical Marketing * ADIC *
> 720.249.5836 * david.chapa AT adic DOT com
>
> Pathlight VX - Integrated Disk-to-Tape Backup - http://www.adic.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Walker [mailto:andrew.walker AT liberty.co DOT za]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:43 AM
> To: markjessup AT northwesternmutual DOT com; veritas-bu AT 
> mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backups to Disk Units going into Queue State
>
> Hi,
>
> I have had a similar problem, I presume that your tape backups kick off
> before your disk based backups.
>
> Coming from a Solaris system, if you run the bpadm command and then
> select g
> for Global Configuration..
> and then select "l)  List/Display All Configuration Parameters". Look
> for
> the line that reads
> "Max drives this master:   ??", this from what I have determined, should
> be
> the total number of physical and virtual drives configured to the
> server.
> IE- 5 physical and 20 disk storage maximum concurrent jobs equals 25 max
> drives this master.
>
> Hope this assists you in some way.
>
> Andrew Walker
> Solaris Consultant.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of
> markjessup AT northwesternmutual DOT com
> Sent: 18 November 2003 06:07
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backups to Disk Units going into Queue State
>
>
> We are starting utilize a Net App R150 for disk based backups with 4.5
> MP5.  With this setup, I would expect that backup jobs directed to disk
> would never go into a queue state unless we had reached the max job
> limit on the disk storage unit.  But for whatever reason, we get disk
> based backup jobs sitting in the queue for hours for whatever reason.
> Tape backup jobs are running and are queued up but I would think this
> would have no impact or limit on the disk based backups.  They just run.
> Is that true?  Am I missing something?  What would cause a disk backup
> to queue?  Any insight into this issue would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark Jessup
> IS Manager, Enterprise Storage and Output Management
> Northwestern Mutual
> (414) 665-3968
> markjessup AT northwesternmutual DOT com
>
>
>
>
>
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