Non-NDMP CIFS backup performance
When running backup job from NetApp filer CIFS shares, job data rate is very slow when compared with other jobs not using CIFS. Example speeds from NetApp: 352MB/min, 427MB/min, 597MB/min, etc Example speeds from other NAS/workstation: 2,512MB/min, 5,785MB/min, 2,641MB/min, etc Server is up-to-date; Backup Exec 16, FP2, HF128051 running on Windows Server 2016 Standard. Anti-virus has the following exceptions: C:\Program Files\Veritas\Backup Exec Server has 4x Gigabit NICs teamed to provide 4Gbps throughput and 3Gbps SAS connection to LTO-7 autoloader. LAN speed test to NAS with 10MB test file: write 529MB/min and read 1.84GB/min. This is not the first time this has occurred and there has been no change of hardware or network elements. Software encryption and software compression is enabled for both scheduled job and test job. One-time backup from CIFS to disk storage yields similar job rate; 167MB/min. We have a duplicate setup at our other site where speeds from the NetApp to BE16 seem to be much better but the only real difference is the actual files being backup up are different the the autoloader is LTO-6
thecus N8800PRO NAS is identified as windows computer by backupexec 16
Hello, I'm using an evaluation version of BackupExec 16, trying to do a backup of a cifs share located on a thecus N8800PRO NAS. When i added the NAS to the default "All Servers" group, i've selected the option "Fileserver or NDMP-Dataserver". But when the configuration wizard is finished, the "ServerType" property of the newly added server is "Windows-Computer". I've tried to select the option "Linux-Computer" as well, but i got the same results. When i create a backjob and edit/test the login account information, the connection to the server is successfully established, but the connection to the share fails, though the same login account information is configured. When i run the backupjob, the job fails also. Anyways, i'm wondering why the "ServerType" property is displayed as "Windows Computer", even though the thecus N8800PRO NAS runs a linux operating system. Has someone experienced this behavior before? Might someone tell me, what i might be doing wrong?
Frequently Asked Questions on NetBackup Accelerator Part II
Thanks to everyone who supported my earlier blog on Frequently Asked Questions on NetBackup Accelerator. I have received a number of follow up questions (as comments) in that blog and I had been answering them as time permits. Two recent questions needed some elaboration.