>From recent exp on installing DC 4.5FP3 in a Solaris environment, go straight
>to fp5. Have had many performance and misc bugs, work arounds the Veritas
>Tech support told me twice now that FP3 is really a GA release, because of the
>many many new features. Two of the biggest issues we had was the VSP (OTM's
>replacement, don't use it and vault basically does not work.)
The only way we could keep the drives spinning is Mpx and manually breaking out
streams by file system.
Good Luck
-----Original Message-----
From: Cris Rhea [mailto:crhea AT mayo DOT edu]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:24 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question on NBU scheduler....
In my configuration, I'm backing up 50-60 clients over the network
to a single master/media server with 8 silo-attached tape drives.
We do full backups over the weekend and incrementals M-F.
Obviously, with this many clients and their growth, I'm concerned that
I won't be able to perform full backups in the Sat-Sun backup window.
Very recently, I've upgraded from NB 3.2 to NB 4.5(FP3) and I noticed that
the scheduler does NOT keep the tape drives busy- I checked on Saturday
and it appeared that several backups had been completed (and one
still running), but no others were pending. It appears that I had 7 tape
drives idle for 12+ hours on Saturday. Sunday rolled around and
the rest of the backups did seem to get scheduled...
What gives? I saw a release note in NB3.4 where a scheduler bug matching
these symptoms was fixed, so I ASSUMED it would STILL be fixed in 4.5.
Is there some configuration setting I've missed, or is something else
going on?
<SOAP BOX>
As a long-time Unix customer of NBU, and someone who just recently upgraded
from 3.2 to 4.5, I must say that I ABSOLUTELY HATE the Java-based interfaces!
For me, the Java interface is 10 steps back from the old X interface.
I have a 256Kb connection from my home to work and the Java interfaces
are worthless. Reminds me of trying to use X across a 28.8 dial-up
connection.
</SOAP BOX>
Thanks!
--- Cris
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Cristopher J. Rhea Mayo Foundation
Research Computing Facility Pavilion 2-25
crhea AT Mayo DOT EDU Rochester, MN 55905
Fax: (507) 266-4486 (507) 284-0587
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