Re: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
Was there any response to the original question here? Im interested in testing network performance from a client using netbackup. Cheers Weber, Philip wrote: Bit of a problem if you've got icmp (and ftp, and...) disabled between most servers clients like we have. Is there anything similar that can work over the NetBackup ports which obviously will be open? Phil -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM To: Ellis, Jason Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they then run through some program which spits out a .pdf. The tool utilizes ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit pipes. Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning your network options. For my money its much better to isolate the local disk with bpbkar32 null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jason Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:03 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line Got a good one for the group... We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems, thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network like and FTP would. I know we test the client side locally by running: bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1 nul 2 nul I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32 and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great! Thanks in advanced! Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Backup Recovery Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank Phone: (714) 520-3414 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu - Egg is a trading name of the Egg group of companies which includes: Egg plc (reg no 2448340), Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd (reg no 3828289), and Egg Banking plc (reg no 2999842). Egg Banking plc and Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and are entered in the FSA register under numbers 205621 and 309551 respectively. These members of the Egg group are registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 1 Waterhouse Square, 138- 142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NA. This e-mail is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete it from your mailbox. Internet e- mails are not necessarily secure. The Egg group of companies do not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by the Egg group of companies in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. This communication does not create or modify any contract. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
On 1/10/2007 8:22 AM, Dave Markham wrote: Was there any response to the original question here? Im interested in testing network performance from a client using netbackup. The best test I've found is iperf. You've got the backup to the null device to test the read performance from the file system, and then you've got iperf to test network performance. After that, it's the media server's problem. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
Bit of a problem if you've got icmp (and ftp, and...) disabled between most servers clients like we have. Is there anything similar that can work over the NetBackup ports which obviously will be open? Phil -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM To: Ellis, Jason Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they then run through some program which spits out a .pdf. The tool utilizes ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit pipes. Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning your network options. For my money its much better to isolate the local disk with bpbkar32 null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jason Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:03 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line Got a good one for the group... We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems, thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network like and FTP would. I know we test the client side locally by running: bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1 nul 2 nul I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32 and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great! Thanks in advanced! Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Backup Recovery Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank Phone: (714) 520-3414 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu - Egg is a trading name of the Egg group of companies which includes: Egg plc (reg no 2448340), Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd (reg no 3828289), and Egg Banking plc (reg no 2999842). Egg Banking plc and Egg Financial Intermediation Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and are entered in the FSA register under numbers 205621 and 309551 respectively. These members of the Egg group are registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 1 Waterhouse Square, 138- 142 Holborn, London EC1N 2NA. This e-mail is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail and have received it in error, please return the message to the sender by replying to it and then delete it from your mailbox. Internet e- mails are not necessarily secure. The Egg group of companies do not accept responsibility for changes made to this message after it was sent. Whilst all reasonable care has been taken to avoid the transmission of viruses, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that the onward transmission, opening or use of this message and any attachments will not adversely affect its systems or data. No responsibility is accepted by the Egg group of companies in this regard and the recipient should carry out such virus and other checks as it considers appropriate. This communication does not create or modify any contract. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they then run through some program which spits out a .pdf. The tool utilizes ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit pipes. Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning your network options. For my money its much better to isolate the local disk with bpbkar32 null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jason Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:03 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line Got a good one for the group... We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems, thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network like and FTP would. I know we test the client side locally by running: bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1 nul 2 nul I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32 and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great! Thanks in advanced! Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Backup Recovery Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank Phone: (714) 520-3414 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
I'm actually familiar with SAS, which is a Stand Alone Sequencer from Apparent Networks. It's designed to send a specific sequence of packets that traverse the network and then based on the order in which they come back Apparent Networks then produces a report about potential network problems. We got another tool called iperf, which is another standalone binary that is allowing us to perform some network utilization testing. Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Backup Recovery Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank Phone: (714) 520-3414 -Original Message- From: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:25 AM To: Ellis, Jason Cc: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line When doing performance analysis Veritas has given me a utility called SAS which runs with a few options and creates an .xml file which they then run through some program which spits out a .pdf. The tool utilizes ICMP so its much easier to use than anything port based and its given me some very good feedback when trying to utilize 100% of our gigabit pipes. Between the bpbkar utility and SAS utility I've been able to identify many bottlenecks and it assists greatly when performance tuning your network options. For my money its much better to isolate the local disk with bpbkar32 null then the network pipe w/ SAS than to use bpbkar32 in an actual backup setting and try to read log files. -Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ellis, Jason Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:03 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line Got a good one for the group... We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems, thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network like and FTP would. I know we test the client side locally by running: bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1 nul 2 nul I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32 and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great! Thanks in advanced! Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Backup Recovery Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank Phone: (714) 520-3414 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Running bpbkar32 from the command line
Got a good one for the group... We're trying to do some bottleneck testing and are running into a problem with the FTP ports being closed down on our Windows systems, thus we cannot really test the network between the clients and media servers. We're trying to see if we can kick off bpbkar32 manually to just move a single file to disk on the media server to test the network like and FTP would. I know we test the client side locally by running: bpbkar32 -nocont [file_path_to_test] 1 nul 2 nul I also know that bpbrm is the process responsible for starting bpbkar32 and passes all the information bpbkar32 needs to start the backup. One thought is to enable the bpbrm log file and see what options are being passed, however if anybody out there has already done this and can give me a breakdown of running bpbkar32 manually that would be great! Thanks in advanced! Jason Ellis Technical Consultant, Backup Recovery Corp-IT Operations, La Mirada Datacenter IndyMac Bank Phone: (714) 520-3414 ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
