UNIX admin here.
How does one turn of VSP/VSS on Windows 2000/2003?
AV?
Also does this advice
only hold for Windows 2000/2003 or for any Windows server?
We have some backups
that go incredibly slowly and I’m thinking of suggesting this to the Windows
Admins here to do some testing.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon
(external)
Sent: Thursday, May
24, 2007 8:10 AM
To: 'Kevin
Whittaker'; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of
C drive slow
First
thing, is to turn off VSP / VSS if its Windows 2000 / Windows
2003.
Any
AV, should be turned off.
Also
look for any large cache files created on your C: Drive - example being
vxfiVspcache_1.tmp (make sure you are set to view hidden or system
files).
Any
disk I/O software should be turned off.
Also,
try a backup policy (create a test one) that does JUST the C: drive on its own
for this particular client.
Regards
Simon
Weaver
3rd
Line Technical Support
Windows Domain
Administrator
EADS
Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road,
Portsmouth, PO3 5PU
Email:
Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-eads DOT net
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Kevin Whittaker
Sent: 24 May 2007 12:44
To:
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows Backup of C
drive slow
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