topic Backup of DAG w/ SME in Data Protection https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Backup-of-DAG-w-SME/m-p/60892#M7377 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need some other person's 2 cent here... I have 2 EX2010 physical servers in a DAG, SME and NetApp LUNs on both. Now I am starting to have a problem with the backup window not having enough time to finish outside working hours.</P><P>When the 2 backup jobs hit each other, where the end of one job doesn't complete before the other one has started, one of the backups fail. If I have the backup running during working hours, it slow e.g. mailbox moves to an unbearable slowness(1-5MB a minute...)</P><P></P><P>Is it really necessary to run the backup on both nodes?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:38:00 GMT support_4 2025-06-05T06:38:00Z Backup of DAG w/ SME https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Backup-of-DAG-w-SME/m-p/60892#M7377 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I need some other person's 2 cent here... I have 2 EX2010 physical servers in a DAG, SME and NetApp LUNs on both. Now I am starting to have a problem with the backup window not having enough time to finish outside working hours.</P><P>When the 2 backup jobs hit each other, where the end of one job doesn't complete before the other one has started, one of the backups fail. If I have the backup running during working hours, it slow e.g. mailbox moves to an unbearable slowness(1-5MB a minute...)</P><P></P><P>Is it really necessary to run the backup on both nodes?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:38:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Backup-of-DAG-w-SME/m-p/60892#M7377 support_4 2025-06-05T06:38:00Z Backup of DAG w/ SME https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Backup-of-DAG-w-SME/m-p/60896#M7378 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>Since you are using the DAG funcationality, you can offload the backup to one node to avoid any performance impact and also utilize the Copy backup feature in SME 6.0.2.</P><P></P><P>Also refer <A href="http://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro/blog/2011/10/04/what-is-gapless-dag-backup-and-how-does-it-work" target="_blank">http://communities.netapp.com/community/netapp-blogs/msenviro/blog/2011/10/04/what-is-gapless-dag-backup-and-how-does-it-work</A></P><P></P><P>HTH.</P><P></P><P>Please let me know if you have any further questions.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:33:24 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-Protection/Backup-of-DAG-w-SME/m-p/60896#M7378 NiMo 2012-01-19T17:33:24Z