>From experiences in our shop, taking control of the cloning (and
staging) is a desirable thing. Networker is good at backing up but not
so hot when it comes to smart scheduling (i.e. don't start staging if
cloning is going or some other job is running, etc.)

Besides, as you've already noticed, you can get more done by not having
it set to auto.

Stay in control, it will lead to a less stressful life :)


Bob Wood



 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
>[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Browning, David
>Sent: 25 July 2007 08:50
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: [Networker] New to clones - performance?
>
>I've been dealing with Networker for more than 9 years now, but have
>never had to deal with clone issues.   With the recent addition of
>storage nodes and dedicated storage nodes, we now have the 
>time to run clones - something we never had the time to do before. 
>
>If I manually clone an Exchange volume via the GUI, it runs in about 2
>hours (give or take a few).   If I set the Exchange Group to
>automatically clone, once the backups finish, it runs 
>extremely slow - in fact the past 2 days, after about 8 hours 
>of cloning, it had finished
>only 1 tape, and was working on tape 2.   
>
>If I manually clone, I could get all 5 Exchange tapes cloned 
>much quicker than having it done automatically - do I have 
>something configure wrong, or is this just the way Networker works? 
>
>FYI - LTO-3 tapes, about 2.5 - 2.6 TB of Exchange data. 
>
>David M. Browning Jr.
>LSUHSC Enterprise Network Operations/Help Desk
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