[Veritas-bu] Adding tape library to backup domain(s)
Hi, We currently have 2 Netbackup domains each with a master and media server and each with a pair of Symantec 5020 appliances. We have the 5020's configured as disk pools in each domain and we have a storage lifecycle policy that duplicates the images between both domains. We are fairly new with Netbackup, moving from a number of different backup solutions. We are thinking about adding a small tape library (LTO-5 drives with 30 or so tape carts). We would like to keep most of our daily / weekly images on the 5020's but we are going to need to copy our monthly images to tape. My question is, given the above configuration, can we add a single tape library to one of the backup domains and can we configure the overall solution so that we can get our monthly backup images from either domain not only on the 5020's but also write them to tape? Thanks, Kevin ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] SLP with Synthetic backups - What are people doing for workarounds?
I'm not trying to hijack the thread. If I should start my own, I will. We are a recent customer of Symantec and use both netbackup and their 5020 appliances. We have implmented 2 domains and are attempting to use an SLP and AIR to replicate images from one Netbackup domain to the other. We see the backups run and following that, the duplication run and complete as well. Our question is, should we see another job on the remote storage system perform the import. If we shouldn't see it in the activity monitor, is there a way (via the command line) that we can tell if the entire process is finished? Thanks, Kevin veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu wrote on 02/20/2012 10:23:06 PM: From: David Stanaway da...@stanaway.net To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU, Date: 02/20/2012 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] SLP with Synthetic backups - What are people doing for workarounds? Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu I am happy to report this was seemingly silently fixed in 7.1 (At least in 7.1.0.3), the only oddity is that each backup job seems to spawn it's own SLP duplication job, so you will see hundreds of SLP duplication jobs queued. Now can anyone say if SLP and GRT backups are going to work correctly in 7.1 ? On 3/16/2010 8:02 AM, David Stanaway wrote: I'm getting very frustrated about having to re-invent the wheel to reproduce the functionality of Storage Lifecycle Policies for my Synthetic Full backups. For those not aware, Synthetic backup images for some dumb reason that hasn't been explained to me cannot be managed by an SLP and you will get dataloss if you backup to an SLP and expect it to execute the policy. The backup will go to the Backup destination, but that is it. No duplications. I am working on some scripts to re-produce the functionality of SLP since Vault is not adequate as I have hierarchical duplications that are not possible with a vault job. It is going to take a little time to get right, and I can't help but think this must have been done before. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
[Veritas-bu] Master / Media server considerations
Hi all, We are in the process of purchasing a capacity based license for Netbackup along with 4 5020's and the Dedup option. We plan on putting 2 5020's a two different data centers we have and backing up locally and then replicating that data between the sites. We will have some help from a Symantec partner but I wanted to get some hands on advice from anyone willing to give it on determining the number of media servers to have at each of those two data centers initially. We have a mix of SAP on Oracle, Oracle, SQL Server, Lotus Notes, CIFS data, NFS, XEN and VMWare for virtualization. Most of the application data will be on a netapp filer of some sort, most local storage is just for os booting. We are coming from a completely disparate backup solution in that there were parts that backed up Oracle and Notes, parts for SQL Server, parts for CIFS, etc. We are also moving away from tape. We have an Oracle SL500 as on of the current media solutions, 3 modules, 10 drives but hoping not to use that in the new Netbackup environment. What are the considerations one needs to take into account when deciding on the number and type of media servers in a mid-sized environment like ours? thanks, Kevin ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
