Flash backup has been the traditional way solve this, as you are running 
7.6.0.2 you can also use accelerator if you run the backup against a symantec 
dedup store.

In this case, I don't think installing a SAN client would help, as the problem 
lies in reading the files.

Regards
Michael


> Den 27/09/2014 kl. 21.43 skrev Shaheensn <nbu-forum AT backupcentral DOT com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It would be extremely helpful if the expert minds in this forum could help me 
> with below concerns related to backing up data using Symantec NetBackup.
> 
> Background
> 
> Our system has a folder containing millions of small files spread across 
> 1000s of sub folders running into more than 500GB that needs to be backed up 
> on a daily basis. The backup usually starts end of day and is ideally 
> supposed to finish before users start accessing the system the following day. 
> However, the current backup using Symantec Netbackup takes lot of time and 
> hence, this impacts the system performance. I assume this is because of the 
> current backup approach used by Symantec is based on file-level backup.
> 
> The current backup policy has a monthly full backup, weekly differential 
> backup and daily incremental backup. However, the daily backup itself takes 
> more than double the desired time. Symantec client version is 7.6.02.The 
> server is a physical server having Windows Server 2003. The drive is 
> dedicated to storing the files.
> 
> I am looking for a solution that would provide the fastest backup in order to 
> ensure that backups are completed before users start accessing the system in 
> the morning.
> 
> 1. What is the best approach for backing up millions of small files spread 
> across 1000s of folders using Symantec Netbackup?
> 2. I understand that flash backup feature in Symantec uses block-level backup 
> and this would be ideal approach since there are lot of files involved?
> 3. What are the disadvantages of using Symantec Flashbackup feature?
> 4. Does installing Symantec SAN client without having fiber channel offer any 
> improvement in backup speed? I read on some forums that you should use SAN 
> client only if there is fiber channel support.
> 5. Would moving applications to Virtual Machines hosted on Vmware environment 
> provide any improvement.
> 
> PS: Backups are not my domain of expertise and hence, I would like to 
> apologize in advance if I have mentioned something absurd. Secondly, changing 
> the application file structure is not an option :(
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Shaheen
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