[Veritas-bu] TS1120 drives with encryption using the Volume Pool ID
I have a request to use the NetBackup Volume Pool ID to trigger a policy within the IBM key manager. For example; If I have a NBU Volume Pool named Bank Data I would like any jobs that kick off that are in that volume pool to trigger the TS1120 drive to fetch a certain key from the IBM key manager. If I have another Volume Pool that is named Client Data I would like that to trigger the IBM key manager to use another key. This way I would not have to worry about barcodes and I could automatically trigger the right key for the right information.. My Question is whether the Volume Pool ID is written to the header of the tape? If not what data is written to the tape that can identify pools or other NetBackup info? Thanks In advance, Pat Kenny +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VTL and Tape or SnapVault.
I have a large NetApp environment and I am looking for a new strategy for backing up my filers. I am trying to decide between using SnapVault technology or a VTL with tape. I am fortunate to be able to replicate all my primary filers to a remote location. From there I want to protect the data. I have a 7 year retention policy for my data. I was thinking of protecting 14 days online, then only monthly's for 7 years. I rarely do restores and most of the data is flat files. With SnapVault I am able to transfer data to NearStore. It takes an initial baseline copy, like a full backup, then it it would only snap the incremental changes at the block level. I am thinking that this would be very fast for daily backups and I could eliminate tape. The alternative would be to use my existing NetBackup software to backup each filer via NDMP to a VTL. From the VTL I would apply the same retention. 14 days in the VTL then monthly's to tape for 7 years. I do not have to takes tape offsite since I am the primary copy is 300 miles away. So I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on this. I am concerned with SnapVault since it is all disk and corruptions may happen. It also has a limitation of 251 snaps. That should not be a problem with my retention policy, but my requirements may change? Also what would happen if I lost the initial baseline copy, does that mean that all the incremental snaps are worthless? Unfortunately if I go with SnapVault, economically I will not be able to use tape or Netbackup, so at that point I would not have the security of tape. So VTL and Tape or SnapVault. Thanks in advance for your help. Pat +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] VTL with NDMP
I am doing some research to see if a VTL will help my NDMP performance. Currently I backup my Net App environment over the LAN. I am looking to improve backup and restore performance. I have a LTO-3 Tape library that can be fiber attached to the Net App filer. My concern is that the Net App filer will not be able to stream to the tape drives and I will kill my performance since the tape will have to do lots of re-positioning and start and stop. I was thinking a VTL would be able to match the speed of the net app box thus the performance would be optimized. Questions: I have newer and older Net App boxes, assuming a 2GB san, what performance can I expect using NDMP? Do you see an advantage using VTL in place of multiple LTO-3 drives? How many streams are possible (Using NBU 6.x)? Do the number of streams help in a VTL environment? how about a tape environment? Any recommendations on performance tuning with NBU 6 and NDMP? Thanks in advance! Paul Kenny +-- |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] +-- ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
