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[Veritas-bu] Can I change bp.conf and not re-cycle netbackup

2002-08-29 10:28:10
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Can I change bp.conf and not re-cycle netbackup
From: kjf40180 AT GlaxoWellcome DOT com (Frinzl, Ken)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:28:10 -0400
Everyone,

 Is there a way to change the bp.conf file and not have to re-cycle
netbackup.   I have a quick change to override a restore media server.
Thanks

Ken Frinzl
GlaxoSmithKline Inc.
Five Moore Drive
PO Box 13398
RTP, NC 27709
Work  919-483-8050
e-mail:  kjf40180 AT gsk DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donaldson, Grant [SMTP:DONALDG AT tc.gc DOT ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 5:06 PM
> To:   'Marx, Keath'
> Cc:   veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; Yearwood, Charles; Oslund, Ron
> Subject:      RE: [Veritas-bu] Better than 2:1 on LTO???
> 
> Hi Keath,
>  
> If my NetBackup DataCentre 3.4.1 "Media List" report is to be believed, I
> am getting well over the "100Gigs native, 200 Gigs compressed" figure on
> many of my LTO tapes:
>  
> # images          Kbytes
> 104                  202,714,503
> 132                  257,023,042
> 230                  347,272,125
> 311                  450,957,639
>  
> So far we have not had any issues with our restores either.  According to
> Advanced Reporter with our 9840 media backing up the same data we were
> averaging a 2:1 ratio (about 40Gig per tape). Obviously we are getting a
> far greater ratio with our new tape LTO tape drives and Ultrium (Fujifilm)
> tapes.  
>  
> Grant
> Transport Canada
>  
> BTW - What sort of throughput are you getting ? Obviously it varies with
> how much data and what type of data you are able to stream to the drive at
> any one point in time, but what are your averages? According to Advanced
> Reporter our maximum throughput averages about 25Megs/second with spikes
> up to 55megs/second. 
>  
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Marx, Keath [mailto:kmarx AT trigon DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 8:59 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Better than 2:1 on LTO???
> 
> 
> 
>       Greetings All,
> 
>       I just started backing up a large clustered file server.  Up until
> this point we had been backing up system state on AD controllers and
> exchange2k servers and the exchange databases.  The most that has fit on a
> tape up to this point has been about 180 Gig according to Netbackup.  We
> added the cluster which holds about 650 Gig of data.  According to
> Netbackup, we have as much as 264 Gig of data on a single tape.  The data
> on this machine varies from home directories with the normal stuff stored
> to departmental shares with anything and everything.  I do know there are
> a quite a few access MDBs and plenty of large SQL flat file dumps.  I have
> tested restores of random directories so it looks like I am getting good
> backups.
> 
>       Is it feasible that I am getting better than 2:1 on some of this
> data?  
> 
>       Thanks.
> 
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