Re: [Veritas-bu] watching a running job (part 2)

Lots and lots of little files will kill you. DSSUs won't speed the job up - after all, your disk is unlikely to be faster than your LOT4 - but will prevent tying up a tape drive for as long.

You may also try to specify the exact mount points you want backed up instead of using the exclude list to avoid that ugly CIFS/NFS mount point so you're not walking the directory tree down a network path.

.../Ed

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Nate Sanders <sandersn AT dmotorworks DOT com> wrote:

So moving on to the next problem server, while trying to backup the
Master server its self (RHEL, NBU 5.1MP6) using ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES and an
exclude file, the job has taken 20+ hours to finish two days in a row.
Looking at bpimmedia and adding up all the KB it looks like it's doing
about 232GB total.

I check bplist and I don't see any unexpected directories in the list.
How could 230GB take 20 hours on LTO4? Available tape hasn't been an
issue. Today I have it going to DSSU to see if its any faster.

Other thoughts?

On 08/17/2010 10:36 AM, Nate Sanders wrote:
> The job was for a Linux system and it appears what happened was this is
> one of our weird loopback mounts. The CIFS share is mapping to an NFS
> share that's shared via the localhost. Apparently Netbackup thought this
> was a local drive even though its CIFS resharing NFS. Turns out there
> was a missing exclude file for this single node excluding that path.
>
> On 08/16/2010 04:58 PM, Ed Wilts wrote:
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>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Nate Sanders <sandersn AT dmotorworks DOT com<mailto:sandersn AT dmotorworks DOT com>> wrote:
>> "the specified policy does not exist in the configuration database (230)"
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>> You were supposed to substitute your policy name, not use my template :-). The job shouldn't be running if there isn't an associated policy.
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>> ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES can't be backing up CIFS shares since user SYSTEM shouldn't even map to those shares. Is this a Windows system with a Windows policy or a Unix system doing an smbmount?
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>> .../Ed
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