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

 
Actually you will have to add the client to that list then turn off
windows open file option.
At least all of my servers had to be manually added to that list. 

Doug Preston
Systems Engineer
Land America Tax and Flood Services
Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104
Email  dlpreston AT landam DOT com


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

Jeff,
 
That I do know how to do.  Go into the GUI and "Host Properties","Master
Servers", then select properties on your master server.  There is a
"client attributes" tab under there you will find the windows server
listed and you can disable open file backups.
 
Kevin
 
 

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



UNIX admin here.  How does one turn of VSP/VSS on Windows 2000/2003?
AV?   

Also does this advice only hold for Windows 2000/2003 or for any Windows
server? 

We have some backups that go incredibly slowly and I'm thinking of
suggesting this to the Windows Admins here to do some testing.

 

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

 

Kevin

First thing, is to turn off VSP / VSS if its Windows 2000 / Windows
2003.

 

Any AV, should be turned off.

 

Also look for any large cache files created on your C: Drive - example
being vxfiVspcache_1.tmp (make sure you are set to view hidden or system
files).

 

Any disk I/O software should be turned off.

 

Also, try a backup policy (create a test one) that does JUST the C:
drive on its own for this particular client.

 

 

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Simon Weaver
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        -----Original Message-----
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        Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow

        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 

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