Does anybody happen to know if EV 9 SP 2 has a checkpoint feature?

My attention is grabbed here ;) Certain functions in FSAUtility do have checkpointing, -pm does not though. Unfortunately migrating to Celerra will be slower than to Windows or NetApp. We use the Celerra DHSM commands to create placeholders on that platform. This is a pretty slow operation (compared to WIndows or NetApp). The numbers I quoted in the blog were when migrating to Windows. If you are migrating multiple shares, then you could run mutiple instances of -pm. However, ensure you do not run multiple instances against the same share. I would also recommend upgrading to 9.0.3. While it is unlikely to get you better performance, for reliability purposes it's always best to be on the latest version of FSAUtility. Darren

FSAUtility and checkpoint

TonySterling
Moderator
13 years ago
Yes, but there was a hotfix for sp2 or you could go to sp3

The File System Archiving Checkpoint feature is not processing through sub-folders alphabetically, which can cause the re-processing of some folders

Article: TECH163368 | Created: 2011-06-27 | Updated: 2011-12-21 | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH163368

here is the hotfix for sp2 as well:

Hotfix for Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV) for File System Archiving 9.0.2, Build 1061 - Checkpointing is not processing through sub-folders alphabetically

Article: TECH167579 | Created: 2011-08-19 | Updated: 2011-08-19 | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH167579
AWMorris
Level 4
13 years ago
The hotfix indicates that this is for NetApp appliances. Have you used this with other platforms?
TonySterling
Moderator
13 years ago
The first article says this:

However in certain environments, such as Netapp, folders may be presented to Enterprise Vault out of alphabetical order.

It isn't exclusively for NetApp. If you have rather deep and wide folder structure I think this will help you out.

Regards,
TonySterling
Moderator
13 years ago
It for sure won't hurt, maybe Darren L. will see this post and comment. I believe he mentioned at Vision during an Ask the Expert session that checkpointing was improved in 9 SP3 to take less time to find where it left off.
AWMorris
Level 4
13 years ago
I'll give a try, Tony.... Customer has certainly got a deep and wide folder structure.
AWMorris
Level 4
13 years ago
What kind of performance have you seen with running FSAUtility -pm switch? Darren indicated 100K in the following post.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/file-system-archiving-enterprise-vault-v9-placeholder-migration

We are getting anywhere near that. Increasing the threads as follows really don't help either.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/using-fsautilityexe-m-s-source-d-destination-watching-grass-grow-it-slow

I posted the following before comparing results. 40 is no different than 20.

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/fsautilityfolderprocessthreads
TonySterling
Moderator
13 years ago
hmm, do you stop the FSA archiving task whilst running FSAUtility?

What OS are the File Servers, NTFS?
AWMorris
Level 4
13 years ago
The archiving task is stopped. We are migrating the placeholders from NTFS to Celerra.
AWMorris
Level 4
13 years ago
You know what I just realized. That hotfix is for File System Archiving not FSAUtility.
TonySterling
Moderator
13 years ago
Sorry, my bad. You did have FSAUtility in your subject but went straight to checkpointing for FSA as that was fresh on my mind from Vision.

No, FSAUtiliy will not have a checkpoint facility.