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sclind's avatar
sclind
Level 6
10 years ago

What do people have set as "Reduce Fragment Size" for LTO3/4 tapes

I have two master servers  with LTO4  drives where we take the default of 1TB. I have another master server where we have LTO3 drives where we drop it all the way down to 2048 MB. Since I have ...
  • Andy_Welburn's avatar
    10 years ago

    We never had ours set, but a smaller value can improve the speed of restores especially for restoring a few smaller files in a large backup.

    A quick search of the forum (for reduce fragment size) will yield 'a lot' of resolved posts, including a pointer to the following T/N (for 7.1 - not sure if there is a newer one):

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO56051

    In the end it comes down to your own environment & how your backups/restores are performing (ours were few & far between, so our emphasis was always on getting the data onto tape in the first instance).

  • Nicolai's avatar
    10 years ago

    Just remember fragment size determine how many data Netbackup minimum has to read to restore a single file. See it like a conveyor belt , where the fragment size is containers and tape the conveyor belt 

    For database backup big frament is good

    For file systems backup, smaller fragments is perferable, but will increase Netbackup catalog space slightly due to the larger mount of fragment pointers.