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Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow Informix Logs backups

2009-04-03 06:48:46
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow Informix Logs backups
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: Larry Mascarenhas <LMascare AT verizon DOT net>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 06:44:44 -0400 (EDT)

On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Larry Mascarenhas wrote:

> Thanks. Tried this and it eventually does catch up. But this is not the 
> correct solution to the problem. It masks the real issue ie the Informix 
> Module generates a job for each log. The processing of this job is the real 
> reason the log backups are slow (even for disk).
>
> In reviewing how ONBAR works, it opens 1 connection to NBU and ships the 
> logs sequentially to it. It is the same onbar process that delivers every 
> log, not separate ones. But NBU treats each log as a separate request and 
> generates a job for it.
>
> Can you imagine a STREAM for a FS and each file is a separate request and 
> therefore a separate job? I have to escalate this.
Yikes-- agree, this is broken, let us know if you have any updates, thanks.
>
> But thanks for this. It is a workaround.
>
No problem, better to have something working then no backups/problematic
backups.

Justin.

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