On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Richardson, Robert wrote:

> Folks,
> I have a Sun Fire 3800, with Solaris 8 OS and attached to an
> Hitachi SAN.  This is a Oracle Financial DB Server.
> The average data to be backed up is 168 Gigs.
>
> Problem:
> It takes between 33 and 38 hours to backup the 168 Gigs,
> 168243872 Kbytes at 1222.017 Kbytes/sec
> There are a lot of 1 Gig files, and quite a few of them take
> awhile to be backed up.  Some even take a few hours to
> be backed up.
>
> Does anyone have an idea as to what I am missing?

To what are you backing up the data?  Basically, what type of tape
drives, how many, and through what type of connection--i.e. over the
SAN, 1GB/s ethernet, 100MB/s ethernet?  It looks like you've got some
sort of major bottleneck--I'd be willing to bet it's not being caused by
NetBackup.

-brian.