Hi Jaime,

Have you fixed this issue ? I had the same one with poor performance backing up Lotus Domino Server.

Thanks,

Ahmed Bahaa

Hi Ahmed,

I increased the paralellism in the client from 8 to 24 and the target sessions in the tape drives from 4 to 8 (we have a library with 4 LTO-4 drives). With this changes I managed to backup using 3 tapes at the same time and the speed increased to 100-110 MB/s. This speed is consistent with the max speed of a 1Gbps NIC (1Gbps = 120MBps). 

I tried too to activate the compression in the client side but without success. Have you tried activate this feature on a Lotus servers? According to what I read, this feature works fine at file system backups level, but not with database modules. Have you any experience using the client side compression?

Kind regards,

Jaime Ponce

Hi,

As per my knowledge if the data base backup is in bulk quantity, you can remove  the nsr_parallelism  option from lotus configuration file (which is located in client server)

LOTUS {

Notes_ExecDirectory = C:\Lotus\Domino

NSR_BACKUP_PATHS = D:\Lotus\Domino\Data

NSR_NOTES_INI_PATH = C:\Lotus\Domino\notes.ini

NSR_SKIPDBERRORS = TRUE

NSR_NOTES_CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 0

PATH = "C:\Lotus\Domino; D:\Lotus\Domino\Data;C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr\bin"

}

as you can see ther is no parallelism parameter present here .Doing like this the database is gonna split into multiple streams as per required and your backup time is gonna reduce.

try it once hope it works