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тАО10-10-2001 12:08 PM
тАО10-10-2001 12:08 PM
Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
N4000
HP-UX 11.0
Direct SCSI tape connect to STK 9490 drive
OmniBack V3.0 cell server on HP-UX 10.20 system
OmniBack V3.0 agents on client host (slow backups).
Informix Version: 7.31.UC7AX4
DB size: 137 GB
raw informix data disk: Symemtrix 3430
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тАО10-10-2001 12:27 PM
тАО10-10-2001 12:27 PM
Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/chapter/ch14.html#51700
also:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4927/backup.html
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тАО10-10-2001 12:51 PM
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Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
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тАО10-10-2001 01:05 PM
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Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
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тАО10-10-2001 09:35 PM
тАО10-10-2001 09:35 PM
Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
I am not really sure, but can it depend on the compression ? Backup going that slow i have only seen, when i switched on software compression on a drive with hardware compression ( sample DLT 7000 ).
Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes
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тАО10-11-2001 04:36 AM
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Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
Tommy
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тАО10-11-2001 08:47 AM
тАО10-11-2001 08:47 AM
Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
Can you give the detail information of Storage Manager Parameters from onconfig. I too have the same problem like the whole system backup it took me 16-18 hours and now after tunning the parameters I got the same into less than 4 hours.
If you can provide the Informix configuration file then we can look and set some speed on onbar.
Thanks
Zafar
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тАО10-11-2001 09:21 AM
тАО10-11-2001 09:21 AM
Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
BAR_ACT_LOG /informix/PRD/etc/bar_act.log
BAR_BSALIB_PATH /opt/omni/lib/ob2informix.sl
BAR_MAX_BACKUP 0
BAR_NB_XPORT_COUNT 10
BAR_PROGRESS_REQ
BAR_RETRY 1
BAR_XFER_BUF_SIZE 31
RESTARTABLE_RESTORE 0
ISM_DATA_POOL ISMData
ISM_LOG_POOL ISMLogs
here are the "Tape Parameters" in onconfig
TAPDEV /dev/null
TAPEBLK 65536
TAPESIZE 7950000
LTAPEDEV /dev/null
LTAPEBLK 16384
LTAPESIZE 9300000
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тАО10-17-2001 05:14 AM
тАО10-17-2001 05:14 AM
Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
I'm pritty sure onbar can allow multi threading (i.e backing up more than one thing at a time). However, the -w option, as mentioned before, causes it to backup the whole database/instance serially, i.e. a single thread. This would explain the difference in the time taken & throughput.
Also there was an "OLD PAGES" bug/feature in informix 7.3? which meant that when backing up large instances it would read the pages to be backed up find out they were old & write them back to the database (updating a time index). This certainly effected the speed of ontape & I assume onbar.
Tim
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тАО10-17-2001 12:37 PM
тАО10-17-2001 12:37 PM
Re: Why is informix onbar backup so slow?
You have 2K page size. I hope there is some limitations with the XBSA transport buffers for only 64Kb. I don't remember correctly but check the manual for Onbar for 7.3.
Will you try to increase the BAR_MAX_BACKUP parameter and see the result.
If you have 2 Tapes then OmniBackII can be Parallely backed-up.
But try to increase the parameter and let us know. I think you don't have to shutdown the engine also.
Thanks
Zafar