benefits with smaller jobs (less clients)

[richw1234]

Hi there, can anyone got any comments as to whether creating 3 jobs 3 clients in each is a better solution than 1 job with 9 clients.

Will having less clients put less stress on the backup server, use less memory, quicker!!!

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[mawilson]

If you have multiple tapes drives to backup to you could run multiple jobs at one time and it could speed the time it takes to complete the backup, but I don't think it would use less memory. It may actually use more because there would be more going on at one time. If you don't have multiple drives, I would stick with one job.

Mark

 

[vschumpy]

Perhaps you want to group the servers you backup to run at specific times or in groups - eg MIS Servers, IT Servers, EMail servers etc, although you can do some of this using source priority in the job itself when you submit it.

No difference to less stress, using less memory, or the overall process finishing any noticeably quicker.