Hi Jennifer, Do you have client-side compression enabled? I'm not familiar with what the GUI reports, but dsmc will show this in the "Objects compressed by" line.
On 11/03/2017 02:06 PM, Drammeh, Jennifer C wrote: > I use collocation and I have a node where the System Admin has requested that > his data from a particular node be isolated on tapes by itself. I created a > collocation group and have associated this one node with the new group. This > node had previously been backing up to a different collocation group. I > created a new Policy Domain and associated the node with it as well. This > policy domain is set to send the data direct to tape instead of going to our > diskpool. I also modified the settings on the server to allow this system to > have 2 mount points. > > I had the SA launch a "full" manual backup from the GUI - using the "Always > Backup" option. Here are the problems I am seeing. > > > 1. I can see that the system state data when to a tape that was already > used by other nodes (which tells me the collocation is not working) > > 2. It only mounted 1 tape in a drive while performing the backup > > 3. The metrics at the end showed that it inspected 283 GB of data and > only transferred 175 GB which means it did not actually perform a full backup. > > Any ideas to help get a FULL backup of this data alone on a single 1 or 2 > tapes and ideally using multiple tape drives to speed things up? (for backup > and restore) > > Thanks! > > > Jennifer -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
