Setting up Optimized DeDuplication.
Good morning, We are in the process of configuring optimised deduplication on on Backup Exec 2012 servers. We have 1 CA Server and 1 Media Server. They each have a connected SAN disk, we have a Dell Equallogic SAN, located on each site and replicated. I am trying to setup the 'Optimised DeDuplication' We currently bacup using the Media Server to the DeDuplication Disk folder (located on the San) - The goal is to have the location of the data (the disk backups) replicated on both sites and accessible by both servers. Any pointers of helpers to get me on my way? Lee
How to test an Export job
Hello All, I have the following small annoying issue. I have created last month some simple backup jobs (backup from disk to tape), that at the end of the verify exports the tape into the I/O slot of our DELL TL2000. Since a day or two, the backup runs fine, but the export does not occur: Tape is still in the magazine slot and the status of the export job is Ready; invalid Storage device. Strange because this exporting went well before. The only thing that has changed is the location of the tape library which has been moved to the rack. I am pretty sure that all the cables has been connected as before (this time I was a cable labeling freak when i moved the hardware). So in short: backup runs fine; tape is not exported at the end. This is what i have done so far: I have modified the job once and removed the export "thingy" from the job. Saved the job. Then I modified it again, put again the export in. The export job number is now 0009 (before it was 0004). (I have some monthly and weekly jobs too that do the same) I restarted the tape library and the services. I hope it will runs fine tonight, but i want to know now if it will goes wel, so I amtrying to test the exporting. But i cannot determin the right testing procedure. Using the webinterface of the of the TL2000 - ihaveput a tape in the drive (the right drive - I checked the serial number ) but i cannot seem to let BE2012 recognize that there is a media in the drive (inventory does not do the trick). And i think it is pointless to start an export if there is no tape in to drive ? Is it possibleinBE2012 to just put a media in the drive, without doing anything else with it ? So that i can start my export job and see how it runs ? I hope anyone can shed some light and help me think of a way to test may export job and solve my problem. Thank you Kind Regards Els M
Slow performace from BKExec 2012 to DeDuplicated Disk
Hello, We've just moved to BKExec 2012 from 2010. Fully removing then installing the software from scratch. We have two BKExec servers at different sites, both the same hardware spec, Windows 2008 X64 R2, SP1 with 32 GB memory. Our deduplication area is hosted on or Equalogic SAN connected by the LAN direct to the Backup Exec Server. The problem we are having is that backup are slow, especially exchange. Backing up a 171gb information store took almost 8 hours and failed reporting '-1022 There is a disk IO error' The backups speeds initially build up to around 900MB/s, but soon fall down to 390MB/s. Backing up a file server (1.5TB) took 32 hours at a rate of 778MB/s Performance wise, network on both server (backup and target) is never higher than 25% for both the network and san links. Memory usage is about 40% with cpu hardly being used. With the file server, we have F-Secure, but we ran a pre and post job command to stop this from scanning while the backup was running. Windows and BackUp Exec are both fully up to date. Any help on this would be greatly received. Thanks Lee