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Re: Very long backup/So many files

2002-10-25 10:56:01
Subject: Re: Very long backup/So many files
From: "Mr. Lindsay Morris" <lmorris AT SERVERGRAPH DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 10:54:06 -0400
No, this is the recent (well, six months old) Journal-based backup
eature  - only works on Windows clients so far.
See your new client manual.

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Mr. Lindsay Morris
Lead Architect, Servergraph
www.servergraph.com <http://www.servergraph.com>
859-253-8000 ofc
425-988-8478 fax


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Justin Case
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 10:41 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Very long backup/So many files
>
>
> How do we turn on Journaling service ?
>
> Is this the storage agents ?
>
> Thanks
> Justin Case
> Duke University
> Durham NC
>
>
>
>
>
> "Miller, Ryan" <Miller.Ryan AT PRINCIPAL DOT COM>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 10/25/2002
> 10:16:52 AM
>
> Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
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> Subject:    Re: Very long backup/So many files
>
>
> Very easily!  The problem is not that you are only backing up
> 12,222 files,
> but unless you are using the Journaling service, TSM has to look at each
> one of those 4,000,000+ files to see if it needs to back it up or
> not.  The
> 10 hours is being spent doing this.  We have many clients in this
> situation, when we implement the Journaling service, we take this 10 - 12
> hour back ups and make them 5 - 10 minutes!  I would be concerned with
> losing connection though, it could just be that the client is taking so
> long to process at its end that it will not talk to the TSM server often
> enough.  I would try out Journaling and see how that helps.
>
> Ryan Miller
>
> Principal Financial Group
>
> Tivoli Certified Consultant
> Tivoli Storage Manager v4.1
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gill, Geoffrey L. [mailto:GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 9:05 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Very long backup/So many files
>
>
> Does anyone think a computer that has this many files on it, that only
> backed up 12,222 files, should take over 10 hours to complete?
> I'm having a
> problem with this node dropping out a couple of times a night for being
> idle
> for more than 60 minutes too.
>
> We've double checked the NIC and switch port for the proper settings. When
> I
> looked at it last night the CPU wasn't doing anything.
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4952I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of objects inspected: 4,151,721
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4954I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of objects backed up:   12,222
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4958I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of objects updated:          0
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4960I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of objects rebound:          0
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4957I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of objects deleted:          0
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4970I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of objects expired:        386
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4959I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of objects failed:           0
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4961I (Session: 3357, Node:
> CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Total
>
>                        number of bytes transferred:     1.15 GB
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4963I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)  Data
>
>                        transfer time:                   73.02 sec
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4966I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
> Network
>                        data transfer rate:        16,571.01 KB/sec
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4967I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
> Aggregate
>                        data transfer rate:         32.91 KB/sec
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4968I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
> Objects
>                        compressed by:                   19%%
>
> 10/25/02 06:13:04     ANE4964I (Session: 3357, Node: CP-ITS-DCMECPD)
> Elapsed
>                        processing time:            10:12:51
>
>
> Geoff Gill
> TSM Administrator
> NT Systems Support Engineer
> SAIC
> E-Mail:    <mailto:gillg AT saic DOT com> gillg AT saic DOT com
> Phone:  (858) 826-4062
>  Pager:   (877) 905-7154
>