Hi,
I am having some SAN issues (writes) that it is indirectly affecting my backup jobs.
Current jobs are set to backup locally 1st (dedicated backup LUN for that) and then copy to network path. That's the order when the backup job was created. So I played around a bit and inverted the order. I put the UNC path on what suppose to be the local path (1st field). Then I specified the local path for what suppose to be the UNC for the network location.
The results confused me even more and not what I was expecting.
I checked with SQL monitor the network utilization and found that 2nd option (backup to network and copy locally) has a spike in network utilization, 40% for a 10GB database, but it keeps using SAN communication for until the job ends.
Now, when backing up to local path 1st then copy to network drive via UNC, the network utilization remains at 20% for the whole duration of the job. However, it is not until the end, than the iSCSI or SAN is used, I guess that for the verify step?
So ... what it's more convenient ? Also, does SQL Backup 7 do backups in parallel when using local then network option? Based on the network graph, it looks that's what the job is doing.
By the way, tweaking the SAN is not an option and it's something that was discussed already. However, average output stays consistent at 44MB/sec when using SAN. When using network, output goes up to 60 or even more.
I am having some SAN issues (writes) that it is indirectly affecting my backup jobs.
Current jobs are set to backup locally 1st (dedicated backup LUN for that) and then copy to network path. That's the order when the backup job was created. So I played around a bit and inverted the order. I put the UNC path on what suppose to be the local path (1st field). Then I specified the local path for what suppose to be the UNC for the network location.
The results confused me even more and not what I was expecting.
I checked with SQL monitor the network utilization and found that 2nd option (backup to network and copy locally) has a spike in network utilization, 40% for a 10GB database, but it keeps using SAN communication for until the job ends.
Now, when backing up to local path 1st then copy to network drive via UNC, the network utilization remains at 20% for the whole duration of the job. However, it is not until the end, than the iSCSI or SAN is used, I guess that for the verify step?
So ... what it's more convenient ? Also, does SQL Backup 7 do backups in parallel when using local then network option? Based on the network graph, it looks that's what the job is doing.
By the way, tweaking the SAN is not an option and it's something that was discussed already. However, average output stays consistent at 44MB/sec when using SAN. When using network, output goes up to 60 or even more.