send client backup to multiple drives

[mpezeur]

I'm running networker 7.4.1. We have one group with one client that takes multiple days to backup (2TB) and has a large amount of changing data. Since it's only one client, I can't figure out how to have the backup write to multiple tapes drives simultaneously. What's the best way to set it up ? The client is win2k3 server, the 2TB is one large partition.

 

[Chapter11]

Two things here.

First, to make that happen in Networker, you have to do a few things.

1) Slice up the drive letter - you'll have to figure out the best way of doing this in your directory structure. Create multiple client definitions that instead of reading "D:", read "D:\folder1" in one client object, "D:\folder2" in the next client object, and so on.
2) Put each client in a different Networker group.
3) Have a different pool service each group.

If you have the same pool servicing the same client definition (by way of group), Networker will parallelize up to the parallelization setting for the drive.

You can simplify things a little by setting the drive parallelism lower, but that impacts everything that drive would service, not just this job.

The second thing is that you may benefit from converting the system to 64-bit Windows. I have a system with five 2TB volumes, and we ran into some performance issues streaming data from the machine that were resolved by converting that particular server to 64-bit.

 

[mpezeur]

thanks, I figured that would be the solution brought up. I was hoping there would have been an option to just have one client write to multiple drives, avoiding having multiple client definitions within networker

thanks

 

[a060463xyz]

Have a look at thread181-27567, its almost the same topic