Is it possible to organize the home directories into something like A-F, G-L,... Then use virtual mount points so that the TSM client views each of these groupings as a separate volume and thus the worker threads will kick in as expected?
--------------------------------------------------- David Nixon System Programmer II, Enterprise Storage Team Carilion Clinic | 451 Kimball Avenue | Roanoke, VA 24016 540.224.3903 (Work) 540.525.8000 (Mobile) ________________________________________ From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] on behalf of Michael Devenney [mdeven...@retsd.mb.ca] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 8:43 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up large folder I am running TSM 6.3.5.0 on Windows 2008 R2. I have a Windows 2008 R2 file server that has a 4.3 TB user homedir folder. It is currently taking 22 hours to back it up. There are several folders located on this Drive. I have one schedule to backup most of the drive and I have created a separate schedule for the homedir backup and I back up using the share name. I set the resource utilization to 10 and I updated the TSM client to 7.1.3.0. This folder is on a Drive that is located on our SAN. Any suggestions on how to speed up the backup? 09/27/2015 16:07:20 --- SCHEDULEREC STATUS BEGIN 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects inspected: 10,698,367 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects backed up: 216,428 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects updated: 0 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects rebound: 0 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects deleted: 0 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects expired: 12,793 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects failed: 19 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects encrypted: 0 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of subfile objects: 0 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of objects grew: 0 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of retries: 28 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of bytes inspected: 2.31 TB 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total number of bytes transferred: 84.47 MB 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Data transfer time: 1.32 sec 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Network data transfer rate: 65,234.56 KB/sec 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Aggregate data transfer rate: 1.07 KB/sec 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Objects compressed by: 0% 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Total data reduction ratio: 100.00% 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Subfile objects reduced by: 0% 09/27/2015 16:07:20 Elapsed processing time: 22:15:38 Thanks for your help. Michael Devenney CNE, MCTS, A+, Server+ Service Administrator River East Transcona School Division 589 Roch Street Winnipeg, Mb. R2K 2P7 Canada CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s), and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ________________________________ Notice: The information and attachment(s) contained in this communication are intended for the addressee only, and may be confidential and/or legally privileged. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately, and delete this communication from any computer or network system. Any interception, review, printing, copying, re-transmission, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited by law and may subject them to criminal or civil liability. Carilion Clinic shall not be liable for the improper and/or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this communication or for any delay in its receipt.