Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow

I would try it with VSS/VSP off first and see if that fixes the problem.

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Kevin Whittaker wrote:

> But how do I backup open files?
>
> I did forget to say that I am using VSP for the 3 windows 2000 servers
> and VSS for the 5 windows 2003 servers.
>
> Also, I have 2 exchange servers that I backup with VSS and they do not
> have this issue.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 7:53 AM
> To: Kevin Whittaker
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C drive slow
>
>
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Kevin Whittaker wrote:
>
>> Ok, I am looking for help.
>>
>> I am running a Solaris 9 master server, with 5.1MP3.  I have 8 windows
>
>> servers that I backup, 3 of them are 2000, and 5 of them are on 2003
>> SP2.
>>
>> Well, I setup the policy for each server to by ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES, and
>> also turned on Multistream/Multiplex.
>>
>> So it kicks off 3 channels:  Shadow, C drive, D drive.
>>
>> C drive is 2 hardware mirrored disk, D drive is a hardware raid 5 of 4
>
>> disks.
>>
>> Well, the C drive backup takes forever!  As an example from 1
> server....
>>
>> Shadow -- 4 mins (911,909 kbytes)
>> C drive -- 2 hours 29 mins (49,461 kbytes) D drive -- 1 hour 54 mins
>> (95,458,574 kbytes)
>>
>> My exclude list for this server has the standard entries and a few
>> that I have added.
>> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\*.lock
>> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bprd.d\*.lock
>> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\bpsched.d\*.lock
>> C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\Temp C:\Program
>> Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\misc\* *.mdf *.ldf
>> C:\Windows\NTUninstall*
>> C:\Windows\PCHEALTH
>>
>> I am trying to figure out why it takes so long to backup the C drive.
>> Should I be excluding something?  I am at a point that I am going to
>> remove the C drive from the backup.  SQLSERVER is running on this
>> box(s).
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>
> Simple, turn off VSP/VSS for this client in NetBackup and your problem
> should be resolved.
>
> Justin.
>
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