Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-24 Thread Shekel Tal
: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Nic Solomons Sent: 16 September 2010 14:44 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3 Also worth noting that for 2003+, if you

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-21 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:59 PM, WEAVER, Simon (external) simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net wrote: Anyone got any real world experience on buffer settings: scenarion: Win2k3 San Media, connected to 2GB Fabric attached 8 LTO4 Drives. Due to drive availability, Multiplexing onto one drive.

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-16 Thread William Brown
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: 15 September 2010 19:00 To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3 Hi All Anyone got any real world experience on buffer settings: scenarion: Win2k3 San Media, connected to 2GB Fabric attached

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-16 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
: Thursday, September 16, 2010 11:33 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3 We use 262144 buffer size everywhere for both NET_BUFFER_SZ and tape SIZE_DATA_BUFFERS (or Windows equivalent). What I did find made a very large difference when I

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Holtz
I agree, Flashbackup is the way to gp for large windows filesystems especially with millions of files. For those who tested in 5.x I'd recommend retesting it with current releases. Please alway look to the patch readme to determine if there are any known issues. This is a feature always

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-16 Thread Kevin Holtz
Sorry using mobile device and hit send to quick. I'd also recommend for ALL windows clients Flash or standard to run defrag regularly with nightly maintenance regardless of the size eventually it will catch up. Sent from my mobile Kevin On Sep 16, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Kevin Holtz

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-16 Thread Nic Solomons
); William Brown; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3 Windows is a piece of cake. Install the client. Select Policy Type: Flashbackup-Windows Setup Selection List: \\.\Rfile:///\\.\R: (change drive letter as required) Run Policy Enjoy

Re: [Veritas-bu] Real World NBU Buffer settings Win2k3

2010-09-15 Thread Marion Hakanson
simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net said: . . . Maybe I could look into this more. But I did want to find out if anyone had buffer settings recommended for large file system backups. Our new master server is Solaris, not Windows, but we did recently add a largish Windows file server client. It's