Curious indeed... did you try falling back to the older client? If you
do, i would suggest setting up a temporary node on the server and test
under that name... there may be some incompatibilities between backups from
different client levels, and you probably don't want to be flipping back
and forth... you may not be able to restore data backed up by the "new"
client with the "old" one.
Robin Sharpe
Berlex Labs
"Seay, Paul"
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01/30/02 Subject:
08:02 AM Re: Background / Foreground Performance
Mystery
Please
respond to
"ADSM: Dist
Stor Manager"
What Resourceutilization number are you using?
-----Original Message-----
From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 5:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery
Tried Wanda's idea last night. Backup completed in what we expect the
normal
time to be. This is using my logon (admin auth on the local NT resource
domain) and opening a window with the command dsmc sched.
Not sure what this tells us though.... I'm thinking this is still in the
foreground vs. an NT service? Starting to get way over my NT skills at this
point!
I've asked some of the local Intel support folks about dispatching
priorities and if/where they can be set. Are any of the NT savvy folks on
the list aware of anyplace that can be set on NT4?
Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305
-----Original Message-----
From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery
I have no clue; but one difference in running dsmc as yourself and via the
scheduler is that you are running under different accounts.
What happens if you run the scheduler under your own account?
-----Original Message-----
From: Magura, Curtis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:06 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Background / Foreground Performance Mystery
Client:
O/S - NT4 SP6A
TSM 4.2.1.20
Server:
AIX 4.3.3 ML6
TSM 4.2.1.7
We have one NT client the has degraded terribly over the past couple of
months. We are in the midst of upgrading clients to .20 and the hope was it
would help. No luck.
Here's the weird part. If I logon to the machine and run dsmc incr the
backup performance is about what we expect. Last night we backed up 155.56
GB in 09:05:16. This is an Intel file server with a tad over 4.8 million
files on it. If the TSM Scheduler Service starts the backup it takes more
than 24 hours to complete! And even more weird it used to run using the
scheduler just fine..... Standard caveats....nobody has changed anything or
so they all say!!! Except of course the upgrade to the newer client that I
mentioned. I also deleted and recreated the TSM Scheduler Service.... No
difference. The machine is set give performance preference to background
tasks per right clicking on properties of My Computer.
I'm at a loss as to why the scheduler performance in unacceptable. Earlier
today I setup an "AT" job to start up the dsmc incr command to see how it
would run. Appears to be running at the same pace as if it was started via
the Scheduler service.
I'll take any help on this one!
Curt Magura
Lockheed Martin EIS
Gaithersburg, Md.
301-240-6305
