Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow
2007-05-25 01:41:02
Depends on the files open to be honest. In most cases,
have found NBU handles alot of Windows open files really
well.
Sometimes VSS cannot even handle certain application specific
files - so either those applications are turned off overnight, or offline copies
of the files are made so they are written to
tape.
but its very few and far
between....
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
I saw the question
earlier but not a reply to it: What does one do about open files that
aren't backed up if VSS/VSP is turned off?
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of C drive slow
Yes
- you can do it via a CLI - bpclient -client <clientname> -L and look
for the "WOFB" option - I think it says "Yes" if its enabled and to turn off,
its something like bpclient -client <clientname> -update -WOFB_enabled
0
Which
should turn it off I believe!
Sure
its in the SysAdmin Guide somewhere....
Regards
Simon
Weaver 3rd
Line Technical Support Windows Domain
Administrator
EADS
Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS) Anchorage
Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email:
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Jonathan [mailto:JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com] Sent: 24 May 2007 14:21 To: Kevin Whittaker; Jeff Lightner;
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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
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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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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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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
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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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