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[Veritas-bu] Slow backups, but only on one client

2002-04-04 18:51:47
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Slow backups, but only on one client
From: larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com (Larry Kingery)
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 18:51:47 -0500 (EST)
Actually, unless you put it in really verbose mode, you can't tell
what file it's backing up.  It only updates that every 500.

That said, definitely check netstat -anI <NIC> for errors.

Elwood Blues writes:
> A customer is having a problem with one of their servers backups. Running
> NB Datacenter server on Solaris 7, with several Solaris 7 & 8 clients. All
> the clients backup fine, except for one (Solaris 8, UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz,
> 768M RAM). The only thing different about this client is that it is a mail
> server. If the backup is allowed to run, it will sometimes take up to 4
> days to complete, blocking out other NetBackup clients during that time.
> Initially we were assuming that the backups were taking a long time due to
> constantly updating mail spools and mqueue directories. We altered what
> files would be backed up, limiting it to config files and binaries, and
> backups would still take forever. Looking at the log files during a backup
> showed very little information, the backup would sit for 30 or more
> minutes at a time backing up something small like an /etc/rc*.d file. The
> server has plenty of available cpu, memory and swap space. These servers
> all hang off the same VLAN, and the server that is having difficulty has
> plently of available bandwidth. The other NetBackup clients are backing
> up significantly more data in much less time (15-45 minutes).
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on the situation, any suggestions for what kind
> of additional logging I should enable, etc?
> 
> TIA
> 
>     -F
> 
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