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November 2nd, 2007 06:00

Informix Module - Slow backup of Logical logs through Onbar

Hi,

I have a customer with the following configuration:
Informix 10
Networker Module for Informix 3.0
Redhat linux Enterprise

We have set up the informix to backup, using onbar, the logical logs to a Backup-to-disk folder on the same client (it is a storage node).
However, when we start the backup of the logical logs, we have noticed a delay/pause of 20seconds between each log backup.
i.e. if the system needs to backup 10 log files, it sends the first saveset and backs it up, then waits for 20seconds before sending the next log file,

It seems that this delay is caused by the time it takes for the onbar process to receive an acknowledgement from the NSR server that the saveset backup is ready.

The problem with this is that there may come a point where, if the log files fill up faster than the system can backup & therefore no free log files are available, the informix will crash.
The log file size is 2MB. This is a business requirement which cannot change.

With native ontape backup or native ISM, there is no delay between log file backups, and therefore no problem.

My question is the following:
Has anybody experienced this?
if yes, is there a workaround?
or is this a limitation of the Networker module.

Thanks
Kenneth

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November 2nd, 2007 07:00

Are you using 1 or two disk devices? If we assume what you say is correct it sounds as if process is waiting for devices to get out of idle state to done and then re-initiate write (which should not be the case). I remember many years ago I had this problem, but I forgot what module was involved (perhaps Informix too) - I remember we opened a RFE where we could control that time between idle and done state. I assume next log is next session and since drive is in idle state instead of being able to use it requests for a new volume which your old volume will be instead once it goes from idle to writing done state. You can do test and observe it with nsrwatch to see if that is the case.

EDIT: I just found that I had this with SAP module.

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August 7th, 2008 02:00

In case anybody encounters this issue..
I solved it by upgrading to Networker 7.4 from 7.3.2.

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September 3rd, 2008 04:00

I hope that is 7.4.2 and not 7.3.2.

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