Re: [Veritas-bu] Slow moving backup.

Does the backup eventually fail. If it does with what error code. Try running backup in multiple streams using wild card and look out for a troublesome folder or a file. It can be a stale NFS file entry and it can be resolved either by rebooting or mounting and unmounting the file system.

Regards,

Saranjit Singh Brar

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> From: harpreet_singh AT ctl.creative DOT com
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 06:20:27 +0800
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Slow moving backup.
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> Dear all,
>
> It is noticed when I am doing backup via NFS I am getting below messages.
> Where it hangs the backups for a short while.
>
> Any Idea how to fix this.
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> log file from /bpbkar
>
> 05:40:25.146 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTL-EPO/CTL-EPO-2010-12-02--1/CTLEPO1-flat.vmdk
> 05:40:25.230 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTL-EPO/CTL-EPO-2010-12-02--1/CTLEPO1.vmdk
> 05:40:25.237 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTL-EPO/CTL-EPO-2010-12-02--1/CTLEPO1.vmx
> 05:40:25.237 [23204] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTLCVS1/
> 05:40:25.263 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTLCVS1/CTLCVS1-2010-12-02--1/
> 05:40:25.263 [23204] <2> bpbkar process_file: INF
> - /vcb_bkup/CTLCVS1/CTLCVS1-2010-12-02--1/CTLCVS1-flat.vmdk is sparse:
> stat.st_size = 10758666240, stat.st_blocks * 512 = 10731413504
> 05:51:17.039 [23204] <2> bpbkar process_file: INF
> - /vcb_bkup/CTLCVS1/CTLCVS1-2010-12-02--1/CTLCVS1-flat.vmdk is now size
> 9914671872
> 06:04:41.236 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTLCVS1/CTLCVS1-2010-12-02--1/CTLCVS1-flat.vmdk
> 06:04:41.329 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTLCVS1/CTLCVS1-2010-12-02--1/CTLCVS1.vmdk
> 06:04:41.330 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTLCVS1/CTLCVS1-2010-12-02--1/CTLCVS1.vmx
> 06:04:41.330 [23204] <4> bpbkar PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTLDB2/
> 06:04:41.369 [23204] <4> bpbkar
> PrintFile: /vcb_bkup/CTLDB2/CTLDB2-2010-12-02--1/
> 06:04:41.371 [23204] <2> bpbkar process_file: INF
> - /vcb_bkup/CTLDB2/CTLDB2-2010-12-02--1/CTLDB2-flat.vmdk is sparse:
> stat.st_size = 10751490048, stat.st_blocks * 512 = 10743996416
> 06:12:42.464 [23204] <2> bpbkar process_file: INF
> - /vcb_bkup/CTLDB2/CTLDB2-2010-12-02--1/CTLDB2-flat.vmdk is now size
> 10565035520
> With Warm Regards
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> with Ed here - G7 are super machines, and strongly and highly recommended
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> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM, xgtdec <netbackup-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>
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> 64 Gig, would you think thats a minimum, if you could afford more would
> nbu 7.0 use it? Any other general Spec considerations you would take?
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> There are a lot of "it depends" here.
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> It depends on how many jobs you're scheduling and how frequently. It
> depends on whether you're a media server as well as a master server. It
> depends on whether you're doing de-dupe. It depends on how many restores
> you're doing and how big those restores are.
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> Since you have a pair of master servers now, you're in good shape to know
> what your expected load should look like. Take the requirements for both
> servers, add them up, figure out how much you're currently behind the
> curve, and add your expected growth.
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> You can pick up a nice DL580 G7 - the "performance" model comes
> pre-configured with 4 8-core processors and 64GB of RAM. We're getting one
> with Linux to replace our aging Solaris-based server but there's no reason
> you couldn't run Windows on it.
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