Here is my set up.
Netbackup 7.0.1 on a master server running Windows 2008 R2 and a media server running 2003 Enterprise.
When running a full backup on some older Unix servers, our monitoring software can't connect to the servers and sends alerts that they are down. When I checked the throughput, I found that the incrementals run with a throughput of around 2 MB/sec and when the fulls run, the throughput is close to 10 MB/sec. Since they only have a 100Mbs, the fulls are running at close to line speed. That's why nothing else can connect.
Now my question. Is there anything I can do on my side to rate limit the backups so they can't run at line speed or do I have to go through our networking engineers and do it on the switch using QOS?
Dan Seymour
