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[Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line

2006-10-18 17:08:20
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
From: Jason.Ellis at indymacbank.com (Ellis, Jason)
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:08:20 -0700
I'm actually familiar with SAS, which is a Stand Alone Sequencer from
Apparent Networks. It's designed to send a specific sequence of packets
that traverse the network and then based on the order in which they come
back Apparent Networks then produces a report about potential network
problems.

We got another tool called iperf, which is another standalone binary
that is allowing us to perform some network utilization testing.

Jason Ellis
Technical Consultant, Backup & Recovery
Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter
IndyMac Bank
Phone: (714) 520-3414

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From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM
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When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called
SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they
then run through some program which spits out a .pdf.  The tool utilizes
ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me
some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit
pipes.  Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to
identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning
your network options.  For my money its much better to isolate the local
disk with bpbkar32 > null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use
bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files.

-Jonathan
 

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Jason
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line

Got a good one for the group...

We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a
problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems,
thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media
servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to
just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network
like and FTP would.

I know we test the client side locally by running:

bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1> nul 2> nul

I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32
and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One
thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being
passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give
me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great!

Thanks in advanced!

Jason Ellis
Technical Consultant, Backup & Recovery
Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank
Phone: (714) 520-3414



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