[Gluster-users] Backup tool / Multiple streams / Distributed volume / Spreading

[Florent Delvaille]

Hello all,

>
> I'm facing a weird issue with GlusterFS used as a Distributed volume to
> store our backup files. Let me detail it:
>
> We are using Netbackup as a backup solution in our company.
> This is made of 1 server managing all backups coming from different
> clients.
> Backups are all done on disk (and then duplicated on tapes).
>
>
> So, the server is a Linux server, having 1 Gluster share /adv_disk01.
> This share, actually a Gluster Distributed volume, is made of 20 bricks of
> 2TB, coming from our SAN box.
>
> Now, lets come to the issue …
> Every policy we start (let say Oracle backup, File backup, NAS backup),
> seems to be correctly spread between the bricks (3 policies running = 3
> bricks 100% used … make sense). So, all good.
>
> But there is a possibility to use multiple streams for the same backup
> policy.
> For example, you could backup 1 Oracle DB, but over 8 streams (so 8 jobs …
> and basically 8 files). Same for MsSQL and so on.
>
> But, 8 streams (so 8 files), do not actually mean 8 bricks used … while it
> definitively should be the case.
> Here is how the filename is looking:
> /SPR-SQL13.MSSQL7.SPR-SQL13.db.DWH_PENSION.~.7.*001*
> of008.20150526151807..C
>
> I tried 2 policies, 8 streams each (so, 16 jobs running), only 2 bricks
> were used …
> There is clearly an issue … but what and where …
>
> Hopefully you'll have an idea.
>
> Thx for your feedback.
>
> Regards;
>

-- 
Florent Delvaille
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