Try turning logging off completely - I mean even deleting all the 
directories under netbackup\logs, and test the performance.

I was in a similar predicament a month ago, and turning logging off on a 
2000 cluster (DL580's) made backups go from 700kb/s to 11Mb/s (9840B 
drives in a SAN).


Prasad.



David A. Chapa wrote:

> Okay, I have a client who is having some serious performance issues with 
> their 
> NT / 2000 backup jobs.
> 
> One client in particular is a 2000 machine with 300GB RAID 5, they have a 
> LARGE 
> NUMBER of SMALL FILES.
> 
> We went through all of the normal test, network, ftp, bpbkar to dev/null, 
> etc., 
> etc. (believe me we did our due diligence)  We did identify that defrag'ing 
> one 
> of the drives helped in the backup performance (~1GB/hour), but not nearly as 
> good as it should be performing (20 - 30 GB/hour to 9840A's and B's)
> 
> Any creative ideas out there for making this run FASTER?
> 
> Or are we just SOL because of the NUM FILES and their TINY size?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> David Chapa
> 
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