[Veritas-bu] tape drive performance on image copies
2002-08-28 12:10:38
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[Veritas-bu] tape drive performance on image copies |
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CBallowe AT usg DOT com (Ballowe, Charles) |
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Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:10:38 -0500 |
are you using a read host that is the same as your write host, things
go much faster with -altreadhost rather than reading on one drive,
sending data over the network, and writing on a different host.
just a thought
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Forgette [mailto:epforgette AT overnite DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 10:15 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] tape drive performance on image copies
>
>
> I wrote a perl script to duplicate the most recent, successful, full
> backup images for a particular class. The script is available at
> http://perlvault.sourceforge.net/ (beta release still...)
>
> The problem I am having is in the performance of the image copies. My
> expectation was that the tape to tape copies would be faster than the
> backups themselves. The regular backup performance is limited by the
> fact that there are tons of small files and by the network speed / cpu
> speed of the client. My understanding is that the images
> (once on tape)
> are one sequential file, which should lend itself well to copying.
>
> The master is an E4500 running Solaris 5.8. I am using LTO
> drives which
> are SAN attached. I've seen throughput (using iostat) of 11 MB/second
> during regular backups. During the image copies, I get between 5 - 7
> MB/second. The regular backups do not use any multiplexing.
>
> Is there any tuning parameters I can tweak?
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> -Eric
> --
> Eric Forgette
> Unix Systems Administrator
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