https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119563#M25598 <P>Did you check the interface on which the NDMP traffic is passing through ? What is the speed of the interface ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 24 May 2016 04:32:34 GMT NAYABSK 2016-05-24T04:32:34Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119064#M25505 <P>Hi Guys,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><DIV class="hide-container"><DIV><DIV class="row page-background"><DIV class="ng-scope"><DIV><DIV class="ng-scope"><DIV class="ng-scope"><DIV class="ng-scope"><DIV class="article-content ng-scope"><DIV class="content-wrapper content-pad"><DIV class="article-body"><P class="ng-scope">Since the last couple of weeks by NDMP backups have been failing, prior to that they were just very very slow. All this started when&nbsp;our&nbsp;Netapp storage was upgraded from 7 - Mode to cluster mode by our SAN administrator</P><P class="ng-scope">I used to get speeds of &nbsp;120,000 KB/Sec and now after the update if I am lucky if I get 50,000 KB/Sec (I mean really lucky), but I have noticed something my backups are slow when backing up huge NDMP data.. like my projects folder is about 32 Tb big and I know its going to take time backing that up but from the past it use to take around 3 days and now its takes 7 days and off late they have been failing at random times... last time it failed with 28Tb!</P><P class="ng-scope">&nbsp;</P><P class="ng-scope">I am performing local/direct NDMP bacukups using a Brocade300 switch, so I have fiber cables from 2 Netapp controllers going to my brocade 300 SAN switch and one fiber cable&nbsp;from my backup server to that switch as well, together with 4 other fiber cables from my tape drives (we use Quantum tape library).</P><P class="ng-scope">I cant seem to figure out why my backups are so slow for this site because I have another site with a similar setup and I am getting very good&nbsp;speeds and the data is as big as &nbsp;this one...</P><P class="ng-scope">&nbsp;</P><P class="ng-scope">Any Ideas?</P><P class="ng-scope">-A</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:04:17 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119064#M25505 alstarian 2025-06-04T21:04:17Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119065#M25506 <P>Hi,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>May i know your ontap version and the version of the backup tool you are using ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thx,</P><P>Nayab</P> Mon, 09 May 2016 05:06:56 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119065#M25506 NAYABSK 2016-05-09T05:06:56Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119066#M25507 <P>The Netapp version that we are on is 8.3.1 P1 and the backup tool that I am using is Netbackup 7.6.1 and I am using LTO 5 tapes drives on my Quantum TL.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 09 May 2016 05:11:54 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119066#M25507 alstarian 2016-05-09T05:11:54Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119563#M25598 <P>Did you check the interface on which the NDMP traffic is passing through ? What is the speed of the interface ?</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 24 May 2016 04:32:34 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/NDMP-backups-very-slow-VERY/m-p/119563#M25598 NAYABSK 2016-05-24T04:32:34Z