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Best practices NDMP backup with large small files

  • February 28, 2024
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Hello,

 

I am trying to NAS backup with NDMP agent but when i am running incr backup its taking to long or de backup faile. The volume have more then 14M small files. 

 

What is best practice to backup it? Intellisnap maybe? 

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Hi @Egor Skepko ,

That is correct, we would recommend you use IntelliSnap.

https://documentation.commvault.com/2023e/expert/best_practices_for_ndmp_agent.html#use-intellisnap-to-improve-backup-performance-of-small-files

Best Regards,

Sebastien


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  • February 28, 2024

@Sebastien Merluzzi Sorry we are using HNAS, does it work on hnas aswell?


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  • February 28, 2024

CIFS share and File system agent in my experience will give you the best performance.


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  • February 28, 2024

@dude do you have link how to configure it maybe?


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  • February 28, 2024

@dude working good with hnas 14.7?? and 14M small files.


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  • March 4, 2024

And what is about iops and ms performance, because i tested out file scan phase my iops went to 8k instead of 800 and ms to 30 instead of 3