-----Original Message-----
From: Martin, Jonathan
[mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com]
Sent: 24 May 2007 14:21
To: Kevin Whittaker; Jeff
Lightner; WEAVER, Simon (external); veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows
Backup of C drive slow
You have to add the client to the list
under Client Attributes, then go over to the Windows Open File Backup tab and
disable Open File Backup There. 99% of my servers have no issues with
open files. The few that do, I've switched to VSS which sometimes works
better than VSP. If that doesn't work (occasionally backups fail with
snapshot errors) I select "Disable snapshot and continue" under error
control. Using that method, I've never had to disable open file on any
windows server (although several do fail I presume, and disable themselves for
that backup session.)
There was a way to do this I believe via
the bpclient command that was detailed several months ago, if you just want to
disable it across the board. I personally don't recommend this however.
-Jonathan
From:
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Whittaker
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:28
AM
To: Jeff Lightner; WEAVER, Simon
(external); veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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
From: Jeff
Lightner [mailto:jlightner AT water DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:25
AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external);
Kevin Whittaker; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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.
From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]
On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon
(external)
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 8:10
AM
To: 'Kevin Whittaker';
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows
Backup of C drive slow
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.
Regards
Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain
Administrator
EADS Astrium Limited,
B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road,
Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-eads DOT net
-----Original Message-----
From:
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On Behalf Of Kevin Whittaker
Sent: 24 May 2007 12:44
To:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
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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