Rate limiting backup

[smwoodcrafts]

Here is my set up.

Netbackup 7.0.1 on a master server running Windows 2008 R2 and a media server running 2003 Enterprise.

When running a full backup on some older Unix servers, our monitoring software can't connect to the servers and sends alerts that they are down. When I checked the throughput, I found that the incrementals run with a throughput of around 2 MB/sec and when the fulls run, the throughput is close to 10 MB/sec. Since they only have a 100Mbs, the fulls are running at close to line speed. That's why nothing else can connect.

Now my question. Is there anything I can do on my side to rate limit the backups so they can't run at line speed or do I have to go through our networking engineers and do it on the switch using QOS?

Dan Seymour

[Andy_Welburn · Accepted solution]

Within the GUI under NetBackup Management/Master Servers/master_server/Bandwidth you can throttle by IP address range.

[StefanosM]

check this:

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO13915
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO67819

[smwoodcrafts]

Thanks to both of you for your quick response. Can I assume, if I want to put a limit on a specific server, single IP, I can put it in both from and to?

[Andy_Welburn]

I would imagine so!