Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-15 Thread Andrew Raibeck
-12-15 10:19:11: > From: "Moyer, Joni M" > To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu > Date: 2010-12-15 10:21 > Subject: Re: Slow client backup > Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Hi Richard, > > It appears that there is a mixture of jfs, jfs2 and sybasedb. The >

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-15 Thread Moyer, Joni M
u] On Behalf Of Richard Sims Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 3:59 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Slow client backup Out of curiosity, is the file system JFS or JFS2? The former employs the old traditional, inefficient, linear directory structure, while the latter employees B-tree dat

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Sims
Out of curiosity, is the file system JFS or JFS2? The former employs the old traditional, inefficient, linear directory structure, while the latter employees B-tree database structure for better performance. Richard Sims

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-14 Thread Remco Post
As other have indicated, journal based backups are a good thing to think about. You could also look into increasing the resourceutilisation and maxnummp. To make those work you may need to split up the filesystem (using virtualmountpoint). Last, if jbb is not an option, look into incremental by

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-14 Thread Hart, Charles A
You can also try a journal based backup, http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=/com .ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_jbbwin.html Maybe use / try Virtual volume mount concept to break it up in smaller chunks assuming its one big vol http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-14 Thread James Choate
I would investigate journal based backups for AIX. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itsm.client.doc/c_bac_jbbunix.html -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Moyer, Joni M Sent: Tuesday, Dec

Re: Slow client backup

2010-12-14 Thread Abbott, Joseph
The only thing that has worked for us in these types of cases is to run a selective backup rather than an incremental. This way TSM just backs up every file rather than going through the examination process. This may or may not help you as I don't know the specifics of your systems. JoeA Joseph A