how can i monitor backup speed

[spyghost]

hi,

i would like to be able to monitor the backup speeds of the storage nodes being run at night. there are some cases wherein some backups don't finish on time. i need to know the speed at which they are being backup... is this possible?

 

[605]

The easiest and the best way is to check the amount of date and devide it by the backup time for a save set. This is info you get from the savegroup report. All other speed values (from the monitoring panel) are momentary numbers and can vary a lot.

 

[spyghost]

yup, i know that would be the easiest. but what i am actually after is at which point in time the backup session falls that much or at which time does the backup speed goes high enough...

 

[TDun]

Try:
nsradmin -s servername
show statistics
print type: NSR device;

q

Run this every 5 minutes (or whatever frequency you want) and redirect output to a file as you want.

 

[ptwork]

If you are running on Windows, you might also want to look into using nsrperf. It's a little known binary that ships with NetWorker. It allows you to turn on some useful perforamnce objects that windows performance monitor can take advantage of. Simply type nsrperf -y from command line, and the following objects will become available in Windows Performance monitor...

Perfmon Objects Instance Counter NetWorker Attributes
NetWorker Device <device name> Rate “last rate” in Device statistic attribute
NetWorker Device <device name> Sessions “sessions” in Device statistic Attribute
NetWorker Device <device name> Errors “errors” in Device statistic Attribute
NetWorker Session <session id> Rate “rate kb” in the Server sessions attribute
NetWorker Session <session id> Amount “amount” in the server sessions attribute

Of course, using performance monitor will allow you to log, graph, etc.

 

[spyghost]

hmmm... i am using unix

 

[birky]

Hi

On Solaris you can use iostat to see the throughput of your drives.