Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow

But how do I backup open files?

I did forget to say that I am using VSP for the 3 windows 2000 servers
and VSS for the 5 windows 2003 servers.

Also, I have 2 exchange servers that I backup with VSS and they do not
have this issue.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:53 AM
To: Kevin Whittaker
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow



On Thu, 24 May 2007, Kevin Whittaker wrote:

> Ok, I am looking for help.
>
> I am running a Solaris 9 master server, with 5.1MP3.  I have 8 windows

> servers that I backup, 3 of them are 2000, and 5 of them are on 2003 
> SP2.
>
> Well, I setup the policy for each server to by ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, and 
> also turned on Multistream/Multiplex.
>
> So it kicks off 3 channels:  Shadow, C drive, D drive.
>
> C drive is 2 hardware mirrored disk, D drive is a hardware raid 5 of 4

> disks.
>
> Well, the C drive backup takes forever!  As an example from 1
server....
>
> Shadow -- 4 mins (911,909 kbytes)
> C drive -- 2 hours 29 mins (49,461 kbytes) D drive -- 1 hour 54 mins 
> (95,458,574 kbytes)
>
> My exclude list for this server has the standard entries and a few 
> that I have added.
> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\Temp C:\Program 
> Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\misc\* *.mdf *.ldf
> C:\Windows\NTUninstall*
> C:\Windows\PCHEALTH
>
> I am trying to figure out why it takes so long to backup the C drive.
> Should I be excluding something?  I am at a point that I am going to 
> remove the C drive from the backup.  SQLSERVER is running on this 
> box(s).
>
> Kevin
>

Simple, turn off VSP/VSS for this client in NetBackup and your problem
should be resolved.

Justin.


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