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[Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line

2007-01-10 09:22:12
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
From: dave.markham at fjserv.net (Dave Markham)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:22:12 +0000
Was there any response to the original question here? Im interested in
testing network performance from a client using netbackup.

Cheers

Weber, Philip wrote:
> Bit of a problem if you've got icmp (and ftp, and...) disabled between
> most servers & clients like we have.  Is there anything similar that can
> work over the NetBackup ports which obviously will be open?
>
> Phil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:JMARTI05 at intersil.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM
> To: Ellis, Jason
> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
>
>
>
>
> When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called
> SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they
> then run through some program which spits out a .pdf.  The tool utilizes
> ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me
> some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit
> pipes.  Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to
> identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning
> your network options.  For my money its much better to isolate the local
> disk with bpbkar32 > null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use
> bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files.
>
> -Jonathan
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ellis,
> Jason
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:03 PM
> To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
>
> Got a good one for the group...
>
> We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a
> problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems,
> thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media
> servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to
> just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network
> like and FTP would.
>
> I know we test the client side locally by running:
>
> bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1> nul 2> nul
>
> I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32
> and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One
> thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being
> passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give
> me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great!
>
> Thanks in advanced!
>
> Jason Ellis
> Technical Consultant, Backup & Recovery
> Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank
> Phone: (714) 520-3414
>
>
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