performance degradation backing up small files
Has anyone experienced performance degradation when backing up large
volumes of files from a NAS array? I am researching complaints that backing up large volumes of small files (128k)results in a noticeable performance drop. One suggested solution was to segregate small files and back them up over the LAN rather than the SAN. Does this make sense? Thanks, Alan |
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m... Has anyone experienced performance degradation when backing up large volumes of files from a NAS array? I am researching complaints that backing up large volumes of small files (128k)results in a noticeable performance drop. One suggested solution was to segregate small files and back them up over the LAN rather than the SAN. Does this make sense? Thanks, Alan First step is to find out where the bottleneck is. With large numbers of small files, maybe the disks are overwhelmed by seek requests. More often the backup software has a bottleneck keeping track of all those small transactions in the index database. Measure disk I/O on the NAS, and on the backup server. Find out where the bottleneck is. Once you find that out, it's time to talk about possible fixes. Rob |
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alan wrote: Has anyone experienced performance degradation when backing up large volumes of files from a NAS array? I am researching complaints that backing up large volumes of small files (128k)results in a noticeable performance drop. One suggested solution was to segregate small files and back them up over the LAN rather than the SAN. Does this make sense? Thanks, Alan Is this thru an ethernet switch ? FWIW I once saw a _very_ strange problem that sort of fit your description. After eliminating lots of things, I sort of narrowed it down to the switch (an otherwise excellent HP procurve box in use for a year.) A call to HP support told me quickly that it was a "known problem" and that I should reboot the swicth. If the problem reoccured there was a microcode update avaiable. FWIW -- Al Dykes ----------- adykes at p a n i x . c o m |
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