[Veritas-bu] Best Practice - Virus Scanning on windows FSs.
2008-04-24 11:47:30
+1 on Flashbackup. Also see if you can get DSSU in there too- by combining the
2 we have been able to cut backup times for 1TB volumes of 11k files (average
file size, disks are 98%+ full) by 75% vs standard Windows backups to LT03.
Tom
Jason Slagle wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I have a windows file server I am currently backing up that I am
> expierencing very low throughput on.
>
> The volume in question is a 3.3TB partition with about 2.6TB in use.
>
> It's currently taking 66 hours to do a full of this file system to an LTO
> 4 tape.
>
> This is a network based backup.
>
> I've been doing tuning, and the network path is clean (The exchange server
> in the same rack on the same switch gets 8-9x the performance when it
> gets backed up) - it's gig-e all the way and is unloaded.
>
> One thing I was considering is that this may be an issue with the Virus
> scanner. Being a file server this contains a TON of files (9.8 million
> files totaling 2.9TB), and I'm wondering if the virus scanner is causing
> this.
>
> The tuning guide suggests I should turn anti-virus off, but my security
> director balked at this idea.
>
> I was wondering what some of you with "way more data" than I have do. Do
> you run virus scan on your fileservers? Do you back them up in a
> different way than I do? I need single file recovery.
>
> Any other tuning advice you can give?
>
> Jason
>
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