Hi Blake,
Thanks a lot for the suggestion! I was not aware of such a solution.
I think this would work well as our plan is to keep snapshots stretching back to 1-2 months so we needn't go back to tape unless it's something drastic..
Best regards, --saiful
-----Original Message----- From: Blake Golliher [mailto:thelastman@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 4:21 PM To: saiful-rizal_muhd-ramli@agilent.com Cc: ammar.zolkipli.lists@gmail.com; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: V-Series with NDMP backup
You might want to look into snapmirror to tape. It's makes backing up lots and lots of little files very fast. The drawback is no incremental backups anymore, every backup is a full backup. And restores are always a full restore. If that's ok with you, Vertias and Bakbone both support snapmirror to tape.
-Blake
On 12/18/06, saiful-rizal_muhd-ramli@agilent.com saiful-rizal_muhd-ramli@agilent.com wrote:
Askm Ammar,
You don't happen to have volumes with millions of files do you? This is what we have and it is slow backing these up... We're only doing 2Mb/s on those so you are doing a lot better... J
BTW, our other volumes are doing 40+ Mb/s so number of files seem to be a factor...
Best regards,
--saiful
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Ammar Zolkipli Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 10:20 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: V-Series with NDMP backup
tmac,
The tape drives are fiber channel, and the connectivity all goes through a cisco MDS san switch. We have 6 tapes in the system, and normally run 4 ndmp backupin parallel. The path to tape should be a 2gbps FC link. The back end infrastructure obviously was built to sustain a much higher bandwidth.
I'll try to run the null device dump and come back with the results
Thanks!
On 12/18/06, tmac tmacmd@gmail.com wrote:
try dumping to a null device instead of tape to test raw speed without tape.
pick one of your dumps, and then do something like: dump 0f null /vol/vol0
You can see how long the dump takes and compare it to tape.
How many simultaneous dumps do you do? are the tapes on FC or SCSI or over the net? how fast is the path to tape?
if it is over the net, did you check for any errors, like using netstat -a?
On 12/18/06, Ammar Zolkipli ammar.zolkipli.lists@gmail.com wrote:
Gents,
Let me first explain the overall layout. I've got a D2D2T design. Both primary and secondary filers are v-series, and snapvaulted. We have 16TB
of
CIFS home dir data volumes backing up to tape via NDMP. And the tape
backup
is on LTO-3 running at sustained throughput of 20mbps, (F**king slow, I know).
Does anybody have experience how to speed up NDMP backup? At this point,
the
LTO-3 is shoe-shining as the minimum sustained throughput on that drive
is
40mbps. And also, does anybody have any experience with NDMP to tell us
why
this is happening?
Thanks
-- --tmac