We have daily backups to  tape and others go to virtual tape and then staged 
later to a clone pool. We run most of the full backups on the weekend , 
although all clients less than 50 GB total start at 3 am Friday morning to get 
them out of the way.
 
Others start on Friday evening, Saturday morning and Saturday night. The daily 
backups are set to skip that day in the schedule.

We do have some problems where a backup is delayed in obtaining access to a 
valid tape drive as this sometimes pushes the completion over to the next day. 


Steven Veitch |  
Enterprise Systems Services | Information Technology Services |QUT


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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
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Sent: Monday, 2 August 2010 11:17 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Backup job scheduling

Does anyone use any kind of intelligent scheduling arrangement to prioritise 
and control backup jobs?

Our operational people lump clients together in 'groups' test servers with live 
servers then let them fight it out for available networker resources. 
This is particularly bad over a weekend when most full backups get scheduled. 

On occasions it all falls over there are questions asked of the backup software 
or the architecture. 

The emphasis seems to be on saying the backup system isn't capable of handling 
the load, as opposed to resolving the problem by better management of backup 
jobs.


What are people's opinions on this? 


Is that Networkers ability to multiplex backup jobs, one of its benefits lead 
to poor job scheduling ability? Does TSM or netbackup work in a similar way?

Anyone else have problems with this?

Thanks
Nick 

  


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