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Re: [Veritas-bu] Using multiple drives with NDMP.

2009-06-12 01:01:48
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Using multiple drives with NDMP.
From: Jon Bousselot <jon-bousselot AT pacbell DOT net>
To: Jeff Cleverley <jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:08:42 -0700
What do you have set for "maximum jobs per client" under the global 
attributes of the properties tab of the master server?

by the CLI...

Check it
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpconfig -L

Set it
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpconfig -mj 4

NDMP will multi-stream, but not multiplex.

-Jon
> Greetings,
>
> I've got just about all the bugs worked out of the new test 
> environment except 1.  I can get my NDMP policies to back up more than 
> one file system at a time.
>
> I've got a 6.5.3 environment running on linux.  I've got a library 
> (tld0) with 4 Gen 3 Ultrium drives.  I've defined a media manager 
> storage unit because I'm doing remote NDMP.  I've set up 3 test 
> policies, 1 standard and 2 NDMP.  All policies work fine one at a 
> time, or either NDMP policy will run at the same time as the standard 
> policy.  The storage unit is set to allow the use of 4 drives and also 
> allow multiplexing (for the standard policy).  The policies vary on 
> the number of jobs per policy.  One is set to 9 and the other is not 
> set.  One NDMP policy has 3 file systems to back up and the other has 1.
>
> When I run the policy with 3 file systems, it only runs one at a time 
> to one tape.  The other 2 just queue.  I've tried putting in the new 
> stream directive between them in the includes file but it didn't 
> help.  I can get them all to work one at a time but can't get them to 
> backup more than one NDMP file system at a time.  Is there some 
> bp.conf directive I need to create? 
>
> Any help pointing down the correct path would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
> -- 
>
> Jeff Cleverley
> Unix Systems Administrator
> 4380 Ziegler Road
> Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
> 970-288-4611
> jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com
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