Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP NetApp vfiler & millions of files...

Hi,

I have the same now, but with EMC Celerra, I tested with multistreaming and multiple backup policies for different mount points, I also created multiple mount points on the filer instead a giant one. I can see it streams better, now I want to team the nics on the media backup server and see how it works. Also EMC and Symantec recommend to have 6.5.3 patch level as it has many fixes for NDMP. Also, you might consider to use fiber attach your filer to the tape library, per Symantec, you should be able to use SSO as well.

Hope it helps.

Regards,
Boris

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:17 PM, ramjet666 <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

Hi,

We are trying to backup a file system containing hundreds of thousands of folders and millions of files.

This data has recently been transferred from a windows 2003 box to a vfiler running on a NetApp fas 3020. We are using NDMP from filer to LTO4 and getting 6300 KB/Sec.

I know its the amount of files causing the issue, the only thing we can think of is robocopying the data to a LUN and backing up a snapshot of it. Seems long winded to me.

Is there any way to increase the backup performance?

Cheers.

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