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2001-11-06 10:38:41
Subject: [Veritas-bu] RE: Veritas-bu digest, Vol 1 #775 - 2 msgs
From: Josserand.Moraillon AT agf DOT be (Josserand.Moraillon AT agf DOT be)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:38:41 +0100
I have already see this problem on netapp 820i,
It appears without reason.
Now I use an external scheduler.
If you find a solution pleas forward me them.
Tanx


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Today's Topics:

   1. scheduled backups do not start (Fayek,  Ahmed)
   2. RE: DLT and media server concern (Robert N. Waybright)

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Message: 1
From: "Fayek,  Ahmed" <ahmed_fayek AT mentorg DOT com>
To: "Veritas mailing list (E-mail)" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:42:04 +0200 
Subject: [Veritas-bu] scheduled backups do not start

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Hi All,

This is a problem i'm facing.
Netbackup 3.4, backing up 2 NetApp. servers using NDMP.
The problem is that suddenly, the scheduled backups do not start on specefic
time, 
so i have to initiate them manually.
i have checked that bprd is running.i also set the log to be taken for
different daemons:bprd, bpsched, ....
but i can't figure where the problem is.

Any suggestions ?

Regards

Ahmed Fayek


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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">This is a problem i'm facing.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Netbackup 3.4, backing up 2 NetApp. =
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scheduled backups do not start on specefic time, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Regards</FONT>
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 02:04:53 -0800
From: "Robert N. Waybright" <neilw1 AT pacbell DOT net>
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] DLT and media server concern
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Cc: Ryn <matty91 AT bellsouth DOT net>

Ryan,

As several other have started to point out, you will probably hit the wall
on network performance long before SCSI performance.  We are using Quad 480
MHz E450s for media servers.  During testing, using Oracle test files copied
from one of my data base servers we were able to write 17.9 MB/sec EACH to
all twelve AIT-2 drives simultaneously on an ADIC Scalar 1000s from just one
E450.  The file was local to the E450 though, those test files were
compressible, and the drives were being fed by dd, not NBU.  The test was of
the CPU/SCSI chains, not the software.

To do that in real life during backups would require the network delivering
214.8 MB/sec (over 2 and 1/8 GbE running at wire speed).  I have not been
able to get any of my Suns to deliver over 54.2 MB/Sec consistently (on a
single GbE) yet.  I am hoping to find the secret tuning combination soon
(perhaps the new Cassini GbE cards).  The extra tape drive and SCSI capacity
in the servers/libraries is useful for vaulting though.  If you followed the
demultiplexing discussion, you find you need lots of drive-hours to de-mpx
lots of images....

Neil

PS - The E450s have some substantial internal bus advantages over the
workgroup servers with fewer PCI-UPA bridges (e.g. E220/E420/E250).  The UPA
interrupt distribution improvements in the US-III based systems like the
V880 may give them an even larger advantage.

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] DLT and media server concern


Howdy folks,

I am trying to devise a solution to backup 1.5 terabytes of data each night.
What solutions
are most of the folks on the list using for similar configurations? We are
debating sticking
in a switched gigabit ethernet network, two media servers and four DLT8000
drives per
media server. The media servers will be Sun 220/420/250/450/280s. Has anyone
devised
a similar solution? By any chance does anyone have throughput figures from
the
220/420/250/450?
I am curious how many drives it will take to saturate the bus. Also, are
there
any calculations
that need to be done to determine RAM/CPUs per system???

Thanks for any suggestions/thoughts/past experiences.

- Ryan



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