Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Rusty Major
fores...@mylan.com Cc: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ?? Jack / Scott, We actually just added this entry and (knock on wood) it appears to be doing what we want (and wha

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
Actually, In the case of the restore I described, it actually did use the local copy to do the restore, it just used a remote media server to do it. It wasn't an issue of which copy to restore from, it was which media server would do the restore. The USE_BACKUP_SERVER_FOR_RESTORE option fit the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools

2012-02-23 Thread bob944
[ restore uses copy from remote serer ] > Thanks so much for your reply. So if I understand correctly, I add > the following in the bp.conf on the master server > FORCE_RESTORE_MEDIA_SERVER = nbumedia2 where nbumedia2 is the name > of the media server I want to use for restores ? I haven't used

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
Mark, We ran into this problem a few months ago when I got a call from our offshore support team who was trying to restore a file in Ireland, but it was running reeal slow. Turns out that the media server in Germany was reading the image off the Ireland media server and then sending it back t

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
t print this e-mail unless you really need to -Original Message- From: jack.fores...@mylan.com [mailto:jack.fores...@mylan.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:22 PM To: Mark Glazerman Cc: Kendall, Scott; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subje

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
Here's some info explaining the behavior: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-media-server-load-balancing-affects-restores-openstorage We use the USE_BACKUP_MEDIA_SERVER_FOR_RESTORE option in our environment as we have multiple MSDPs at locations across the country. I don't want a media se

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
AS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ?? It's by design. OST will try to use the "least busy" media server with credentials. Media Host Override is one way to get around the behavior and get it

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Kendall, Scott
veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Glazerman Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:50 AM To: stefanos; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ?? Stefanos, We understand that the typical behavi

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
ubject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ?? Typical, The DR media server is trying to read the primary image from the primary storage server are send it back to the primary client. One way to resolve this is to use the "media host o

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread stefanos
VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ?? I'm wondering if anyone has observed strange behavior like this with regard to media server dedupe pools and associated replication and restores. Here's our scenario.

[Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
I'm wondering if anyone has observed strange behavior like this with regard to media server dedupe pools and associated replication and restores. Here's our scenario... We have 2 media server dedupe pools setup. One hangs off a local media server. The other hangs off a media server at our