Netware restore extremely slow 1

[hennek]

We have an issue with NetWare-Restore via NetBackup.

- NBU 4.5 MP2 is installed on the NBU master server(Solaris8).
- NBU 4.5 MP2 is installed an the NBU NT media server(NT Windows 2000).
- NetWare 5.1 and 6.0 are NBU clients to the NBU NT media server.

The backup and restore of all other servers (NT, Unix) runs fine. Backup from a Novell server runs reasonable (3-4 MBytes/s)

But every restore to a Novell server runs only with about 150-500Kbytes/s.

Question:
Is there anybody having simmullary problems with NetBackup and NetWare? Any idea on how to solve it?

Any help will be greately appreciated.

 

[emotief]

hi Hennek,

I don't have experience with NetBackup/Netware solution, but I wanted to offer some other solutions rather than a possible O/S conflict. Maybe verify your novell servers NIC settings if you haven't done so already. 100mb Full/Duplex fixed - autonegotiate can slow down backup/restores. Also the memory cache - confirm with Administrator guide for the appropriate settings.

Hope this helps or that some Novell guru picks this up

 

[unisg]

hi there

i found your comment and can tell you that i have exactly the same enviroment.

a lot of testing doesn't solve the problem an also a case opend at veritas gives us not a good solution.

what i can tell you:

we set up an separate NBU masterserver on W2K an are backing up 42 GB of data (1'500'000 files, to local disk) from a NW5 server. the restore to a NW6 cluster volume runs with 14 MB/Sec. great isn't it?

if i try to restore th e same data form the W2K media server (the database lies an the solaris machine)i have the same a you have 80 - 150 KB/Sec!!!

if you have any idea, please contact me.