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NearStore questions
by Haber, David J. 27 Dec '02

27 Dec '02

I'm setting up a new R100 and I'm hoping someone can clarify a few things for me: 1. I was told by a NetApp sales engineer to reserve 4 disks for spares. This sounded like overkill to me. Does anyone have an opinion about this? 2. After the NearStore disks are right sized, how much usable space is left? 3. Is it a bad thing to have the root volume contain data? I will be using the NearStore to store radiology images. The image files are large, static files.

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snapshot_for_backup problem
by Leigh David Heyman 24 Dec '02

24 Dec '02

Hi, I have a snapshot_for_backup which snap list reports as "busy" but it's not. There's no backups currently running. However, when I try to delete this snapshot I get "Snapshot in use by dump or a CIFS share." I've confirmed that dump is not running, nor are any of the cifs sessions touching it. How can I get rid of this snapshot? My snap reserve is about to get dangerously full. Thanks, -Leigh

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RE: snapshot_for_backup problem
by John Clear 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

DataOnTap below version <mumble> has this problem. Unfortunately, the only way to clear it is to reboot and then delete it. IIRC, it was fixed in 6.0 or 6.1, since we haven't seen it in awhile. John -----Original Message----- From: Leigh David Heyman To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Sent: 12/20/2002 10:35 AM Subject: snapshot_for_backup problem Hi, I have a snapshot_for_backup which snap list reports as "busy" but it's not. There's no backups currently running. However, when I try … [View More]

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RE: snapshot_for_backup problem
by Toal, Dave 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

Leigh, Has the filer been rebooted since the snap was created? I've seen failed ndmp (netbackup) jobs leave them in this state, ndmpd status showed none, but reboot killed/closed something. -- Dave Toal Systems reenignE Thomson & Thomson N. Quincy, MA -----Original Message----- From: Leigh David Heyman To: toasters(a)mathworks.com Sent: 12/20/02 1:35 PM Subject: snapshot_for_backup problem Hi, I have a snapshot_for_backup which snap list reports as "busy" but it's not. There's … [View More]

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Defragmentation
by Edward Hibbert 20 Dec '02

20 Dec '02

I think it's general knowledge that once a NetApp gets above 90% full, performance starts to degrade quite noticeably. I've been testing an application recently and observed that this is the case on ONTAP 5.2: * When ~95% full, my performance test came up with a number of ~4 seconds. * Freeing up space to get to around 60% full, the number was ~3.5 seconds. * Copying off my data files and copying them back to defragment them, the number was 2.8s. The only thing I've been able to find about … [View More]

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RE: Jukeboxes for filers
by Ed Sanborn 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

Hi folks, I too am using QuickRestore and backing up my F720 via a SpectraLogic Ait-2 Bullfrog tape library direct-attached via HVD SCSI to the filer. I am see'ing about 16GB's transfer rate over SCSI. However, all for all of my other clients (PC's, Sun's, etc.) I am see'ing only about 1.7 GB transfer rate. All of these other clients are being backed up over a 100Mb switched network. 2 of my clients take about 6+ hours to backup as they have about 13GB of data on each of them. I was … [View More]contemplating purchasing local tape drives for these 2 clients however more tape libraries equals more tape changing headaches. Have folks found that migrating clients like these to GigE REALLY does take care of the I/O issue? It certainly makes sense to me but I want to be sure before purchasing GiGE NIC cards. Thanks, Ed -----Original Message----- From: Quentin Fennessy [mailto:quentin.fennessy@amd.com] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:58 PM To: Ed Sanborn Cc: Geoff Hardin; Barry Lustig; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: Jukeboxes for filers >>>>> Ed Sanborn writes: > That's 16MB/sec over GigE? Yes. > -----Original Message----- > From: Quentin Fennessy [mailto:quentin.fennessy@amd.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:02 PM > To: Geoff Hardin > Cc: Barry Lustig; toasters(a)mathworks.com > Subject: Re: Jukeboxes for filers >>>>> Geoff Hardin writes: >> Barry, >> We use an ATL P3000 library with 16 DLT7000 drives. We use >> Workstation Solutions QuickRestore (now Reliaty Backup) to back >> everything up. We have 15 filers being backed up and the library is >> starting to get overwhelmed. We are considering the new SDLT drives, >> since they are backwards read compatible with DLT. It's been a great >> solution for over two years now; only change I would have made would >> have been to wait for the P3000 GbE library. > We've installed a P14000 with 24 SDLT220 Gigethernet NDMP tape drives, also > using Quickrestore. > First: Quickrestore is an excellent product, with excellent vendor support. > The Reliaty/Quickrestore staff are very impressive. > But: The Quantum P14000 with ethernet/ndmp sdlt tape drives has been a major > hassle. We may have finally reached stability, but not after too much work > with the vendor. Quantum support is not in the same class as Quickrestore or > Netapp. And I question our decision to go with ethernet/ndmp tape drives. > Our integration might have gone easier if we'd used FC drives. > We use this library to support an environment with >30TB of data, >15 filers, > over a Cisco dedicated gigethernet backup network. Our best backup throughput > for one filer is 16MB/sec--a good number! (F880) >> Barry Lustig wrote: >>> >>> What jukeboxes are people running on their filers, DLT, AIT-2, etc? >>> Are you happy with what you've chosen? The last group of folks I >>> worked with had a Spectralogic juke with AIT-2 and Netvault. It took >>> way too long to get the problems with firmware on the juke and the >>> drives working with the software. > -- > Quentin Fennessy Quentin.Fennessy(a)amd.com > Office: 512.602.3873 > Cell: 512.694.7489 -- Quentin Fennessy Quentin.Fennessy(a)amd.com Office: 512.602.3873 Cell: 512.694.7489 [View Less]

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RE: Jukeboxes for filers
by Ed Sanborn 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

That's 16MB/sec over GigE? -----Original Message----- From: Quentin Fennessy [mailto:quentin.fennessy@amd.com] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 1:02 PM To: Geoff Hardin Cc: Barry Lustig; toasters(a)mathworks.com Subject: Re: Jukeboxes for filers >>>>> Geoff Hardin writes: > Barry, > We use an ATL P3000 library with 16 DLT7000 drives. We use > Workstation Solutions QuickRestore (now Reliaty Backup) to back > everything up. We have 15 filers being backed … [View More]

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RE: Jukeboxes for filers
by Greg Libert 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

We are using 4 - ATL M1500 dual SDLT modular units with LVD SCSI interfaces. We backup three filers via NDMP and about 40 W2K and UNIX servers via a NT media server using Reliaty backup software. The adminhost is a Sun V120 that also manages the robotics. Nice units as they are a scalable solution and can be stacked on-demand to increase capacity. In the next phase of our implementation we intend to convert the SCSI interfaces to a fiber SAN interface (M1500 has swappable interfaces) to … [View More]

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Jukeboxes for filers
by Barry Lustig 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

What jukeboxes are people running on their filers, DLT, AIT-2, etc? Are you happy with what you've chosen? The last group of folks I worked with had a Spectralogic juke with AIT-2 and Netvault. It took way too long to get the problems with firmware on the juke and the drives working with the software. barry

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RE: Jukeboxes for filers
by John Clear 19 Dec '02

19 Dec '02

We have an ATL dual P4000 hybrid with 6 SDLT NDMP drives and 4 SDLT SCSI drives, and are mostly happy with it (an ATL Field Engineer is onsite right now dealing with a hardware issue :( ). The NDMP drives speak gigabit, so the library isn't connected directly to the filer at all, just via the network. The NetApps just see the NDMP drives as a remote device. We previously had a <mumble> jukebox with DLT7000s connected directly to the filers, and had a few occasions where we had to … [View More]

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