toasters May 1999

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Anybody running alternative NAS boxes alongside netapps?
by Jaye Mathisen 24 May '99

24 May '99

I just got done catching my breath, and wiping the tears out of my eyes reviewing the latest storage quote from Netapp for my 540. Is anybody using some of the other boxes available as adjuncts to the netapp? I'm going to keep my netapps for some very specific users, but I believe I can move significant amounts of data (log files, etc). off to other products, and avoid paying absolutely ridiculous prices... My needs are mainly NFS, with just a hint of CIFS (that I can live w/o), thrown in. Thanks in advance.

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Re: NetBackup + F760s -- any solutions?
by Benjy Feen 24 May '99

24 May '99

Turned out to be simpler than I thought. Our Fast Ethernet card was pegged at half duplex instead of full. Using full duplex allowed the data to stream, and our backup completed in one hour instead of 7. Maybe I should post a summary of things I've said to myself here :) On Mon, 24 May 1999, Bennett Todd wrote: > 1999-05-24-14:17:29 Benjy Feen: > > [...] At this point it needs to write an index which ends up being about > > 76MB. Now the fun begins. The index data isn't streaming at ALL. It writes > > a couple dozen blocks and then pauses, and as we progress into the tape the > > pauses get longer and longer. I'm guessing that the tape is continuously > > rewinding and seeking to the write point, writing a couple of blocks, and > > then starting over again. The index takes about 4 hours to write this way. > I'm not a netbackup expert, in fact I know very little about it, but if I > found a situation like that I'd be looking for a way to write that index file > to disk. Or to send it through a pipe, with something like team[1] to > aggressively buffer the tape output. > > -Bennett > > [1] <URL:ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/distfiles/team-3.1.tar.gz> > -=- Benjy Feen benjy(a)feen.com http://www.feen.com Specialization is for insects. =-=

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NetBackup + F760s -- any solutions?
by Benjy Feen 24 May '99

24 May '99

Hi -- Just joined the list, and not a moment too soon... I've been tasked with providing a backup solution for a couple of F760s, with an ultimate eye on providing a good solution for a slew of F330s and such. Here's what I've got to work with: a Sun E450 a Sun StorEdge L1000 library with 4 Quantum DLT7000s (Same as ATL P1000) 2 F760s running 5.2.1P2 ; approx 190 GB of disk each NetBackup 3.1.1 We run both CIFS and NFS, and this data is considered extremely critical. Can anyone recommend a cookbook solution for getting successful backups with this set of equipment? I've searched the mailing list archive, but haven't found a "how-to". NDMP seems to be the only way, and I noticed some animosity toward NetBackup's NDMP skills... Thanks! Benjy Feen

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Homeworkers Needed !
by bretu213＠mindspring.com 22 May '99

22 May '99

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by Claes Bergland 21 May '99

21 May '99

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Please disregard my last message
by Brian Meek 21 May '99

21 May '99

I have to many aliases in my address book that start with Net...

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Re: ndmpcopy
by Jason D. Kelleher 21 May '99

21 May '99

Hmmm... Looks like part of your message got garbled. I'll have to put on my Postmaster hat later and look into that... >ac220 is the 220, nac330 is the 330 and nac330-bak is the private 100mb >network connection between the two. > >Here is my command: > >ndmpcopy nac220:/vol/vol0/testdir nac330:/vol/vol0/testdir -sa root:pass >-da root:pass -d nac330-bak I'd guess that the NetApp's aren't routing over the private connection. Try specifying the interfaces in the ndmpcopy command, like this: ndmpcopy nac220-bak:/vol/vol0/testdir nac330-bak:/vol/vol0/testdir -sa root:pass -da root:pass I'm not sure what the -d you're using is for, but I've used ndmpcopy to move ~6GB/hr over a 100mb-full connection from an F330 to an F740. >One other piece of info--the 220 is used to store Netnews data. When >I am testing I have not turned news off, so the data is continually >changing. When I do the actual transfer news will be turned off. But No it's not. The ndmpcopy is doing a dump on the source filer, so the data is comming out of a snapshot. >I can't turn it off for my testing. > >1. Is my ndmpcopy command correct? > Looks good to me, just explicitly state the interfaces you wish to use. >2. Is it abysmally slow because the news is still up? Don't know. How loaded is the filer? jason

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dump to tape collisions?
by Joanna Gaski 20 May '99

20 May '99

During some testing I found that when a dump is already in progress to our filer's local tape library (one drive), another dump can be run. (Okay, so I as at home and thought that the previous dump would have finished.) Both dumps were apparently running, thinking that they were successfully writing to the same tape. An mt status command run during this period showed that the drive was ready, but checking the status several times showed that writing was occurring (block numbers were changing). Also, the fileno number increased several more times than it should have. The behaviour I would expect is that is a dump is already running, another attempt to dump to the tape would result in a device busy message. Did I witness one dump clobbering another? The filer is an F740, the library is a Qualstar 6110, and Data OnTap is version 5.2.1. Thanks for any insight.

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Script to see which machines have open sockets to Fantomas
by Brian Meek 20 May '99

20 May '99

It also prints how many sockets each machine has open. This is handy to find out which frontlines are running new or old DispatchWeb code. netstat |grep 54321|awk '{print $5}'|awk -F. '{print $1}'|sort|uniq -c

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native file locking
by Jason Middlebrooks 20 May '99

20 May '99

Is there a way to turn on Native File Locking on the netapp filers or is all the locking simply rely on the how the clients lock the files? Thanks, Jason

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