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[Veritas-bu] Vaulting Speeds

2004-04-12 16:12:34
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Speeds
From: david.chapa AT adic DOT com (David Chapa)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:12:34 -0600
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Are you Multiplexing your backups?
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David A. Chapa * Technical Advisor * ADIC * 720.249.5836 * 720.272.8452
cell *  david.chapa AT adic DOT com <mailto:david.chapa AT adic DOT com>=20
The FUTURE is HERE - http://www.adic.com/gopathlightvx
<http://www.adic.com/gopathlightvx>=20
-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Mike Day
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 1:53 PM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting Speeds
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During the backup window the backups use all 6 of my tape drives in my
environment.  Since the process to copy the tapes only leaves 3
available it takes twice the amount of time it took to backup the
servers to do vaulting!  After looking at the message boards it looks
like others have had similar problems with vault speeds.  Is this still
true?  Does it still take as long to vault an image as it took to back
it up? =20
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I'm noticing this when I look at the 'All Log Entries' for vaulting.
These speeds look similar to the backup speeds:
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"successfully wrote backup id revenue1_1081617701, copy 2, fragment 1,
292128 Kbytes at 11224.037 Kbytes/sec"
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"successfully wrote backup id rcafs05_1081612881, copy 2, fragment 6,
2048000 Kbytes at 6198.941 Kbytes/sec"
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Is there any way to speed them up?  Is this fixed in ver 4.5 mp6 or 5.0
(I'm using 4.5 mp4 on AIX)?
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Mike Day
mday AT qrs DOT com=20

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Vaulting Speeds</span></font></p>

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face=3D"Times New Roman"><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'>During the backup window the =
backups use
all 6 of my tape drives in my environment.<span =
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp;
</span>Since the process to copy the tapes only leaves 3 available it =
takes
twice the amount of time it took to backup the servers to do =
vaulting!<span
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>After looking at the message =
boards it looks
like others have had similar problems with vault speeds.<span
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>Is this still true?<span
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>Does it still take as long to =
vault an image
as it took to back it up?<span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; =
</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I'm noticing this when I look at =
the
'All Log Entries' for vaulting.<span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; =
</span>These
speeds look similar to the backup speeds:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p=
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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'>&quot;successfully wrote backup =
id
revenue1_1081617701, copy 2, fragment 1, 292128 Kbytes at 11224.037
Kbytes/sec&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
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mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p=
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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'>&quot;successfully wrote backup =
id
rcafs05_1081612881, copy 2, fragment 6, 2048000 Kbytes at 6198.941
Kbytes/sec&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></font></p=
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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Is there any way to speed them =
up?<span
style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>Is this fixed in ver 4.5 mp6 or =
5.0 (I'm
using 4.5 mp4 on AIX)?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
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<p class=3DMsoNormal style=3D'margin-left:.5in'><font size=3D2 =
color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Mike =
Day<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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color=3Dblue
face=3D"Comic Sans MS"><span =
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