Hello Mark
 
You did not tell us much about what you are writting the catalog backup to. 
 
One problem that we have run into was the overuse of dlt tapes. With one or 
more catalog backups a day and a small subset of tapes being used for catalog 
backups the tapes use count would reach many hundreds. Mounting the catalog 
backup tape would cause the cleaning light to come on, with slow performance or 
failure. 
 
len

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From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu on behalf of Mark Jackson
Sent: Mon 10/18/2004 11:38 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog backups take too long!!



Hi there,
    Catalog backups are taking in excess of 4 hours to complete (often
takes much longer.. up to 10 hours).  We are running NB 5.1 on Solaris
9, connected to an ATL P7000 changer unit.  The catalog is around 70 GB
in size, with /usr/openv/netbackup/db/images containing aprox. 63 GB of
data.  Normal backups are functioning OK.
    Any hints as to why this is taking so long would be appreciated.

Thanks, Mark
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