YMMV: Enable NFS on the share, and mount it directly to your TSM server.
I realize that it is anecdotal, but I've seen NFS backups complete in a quarter of the time compared to CIFS. Have you considered NDMP? [RC] On Jul 9, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) wrote:
I have a netapp share that is being backed up through a Windows 2003 server and is taking 23-25 hours to run. It is on a gigabit network, processing approximately 3.9 million items. Does anyone have any suggestions how to accelerate this job? Max mount points=7, resourceutilization=7, memoryefficientbackup=no. All of the netapp shares back up through this one server but this is the only one that is this large. The sys admin setup several batch jobs that start separately so that more than one backup can run at one time. My TSM server is on AIX 5.3, TSM 5.3 with a 180Gb database, 87.2% utilized so I am hesitant to do anything that will further tax the server. Any ideas how I can back this up faster without stressing the server? Thanks. Debbie Haberstroh Server Administration Northrop Grumman Information Technology Commercial, State & Local (CSL)
