[Veritas-bu] Celerra backups

2011-02-18 Thread mitch808
Fastest would be to add the VTL option to your DD box. So you can dump write to the DD directly. This will require a FC add-in card Easiest in your current config would be to NDMP to disk, though the data has to pass through the media server first. This could be a bottleneck. Though the new

Re: [Veritas-bu] Celerra backups

2011-02-17 Thread William Brown
You've raised a number of issues there! Most NDMP backups are designed to be 'off-host' i.e. the data goes from the storage array to the backup medium without much intervention; that makes it quick but dumb. The first impact is that the backup data using NDMP is in a format proprietary to the

Re: [Veritas-bu] Celerra backups

2011-02-17 Thread Clem Kruger
. -Original Message- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of X_S Sent: 16 February 2011 21:49 To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Celerra backups we have about 8 data movers with about 100TB of

[Veritas-bu] Celerra backups

2011-02-16 Thread X_S
we have about 8 data movers with about 100TB of data. we're presently using netbackup and ndmp to back these up over fibre to LTO4 tape drives. i would like to back this up to a data domain box (10Gb nics) but am looking for ideas for the fastest and/or best way to get this data to data domain