Is anyone getting > 100MB/s on a NetApp SM2Tape backup?

2012-04-27 Thread Schaub, Steve
All, We are implementing an IBM N-Series Filer cluster (rebranded NetApp) and working on getting the full-volume DR backups setup. We are using SnapMirror2Tape with 3-way NDMP (don't want to dedicate FC tape drives from our Library Mgr environment, and we have 10gb Ethernet from the Filer to t

Size of actice data pool ?

2012-04-27 Thread Guenther Bergmann
Hi all, given the following setup: TSM 5.5 Primary storage pool of device class FILE Copy ool on LTO -tapes, managed by DRM Primary pool ist copied daily to the copy pool Since the Copy pool is reaching some limitations ( # of tapes, vault capacity) we are thinking about setting up an active da

Re: Size of actice data pool ?

2012-04-27 Thread Shawn Drew
You can run a preview on the "copy activedata" command.(i.e. copy active data xxx preview=yes) This should tell you what you want to know. Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet guenther_bergm...@gbergmann.de Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.ED

Re: Size of actice data pool ?

2012-04-27 Thread Bob Levad
Another option that may quickly give you some rough information is query filespace. A spreadsheet with filespace size times percentage full for the pertinent filespaces will give you an estimate of the data involved. This depends also on backup excludes that may be involved. Bob. -Origin

Re: Is anyone getting > 100MB/s on a NetApp SM2Tape backup?

2012-04-27 Thread Schaub, Steve
Additional data 1. The option we turned off that gave us our latest boost was "Options ndmpd.offset_map.enable off" 2. I ran 4 concurrent SMTape backups to TSM yesterday evening. Total data throughput was 1,597,200 MB over 121 minutes, which works out to 220 MB/s or 780 GB/hr. when