All, We're purchasing the Advanced Client option to enable us to pull raw data off our HDS SAN and as a bonus I'd like to use Flashbackup to grab our fileservers. My question is, how processor/memory intensive is the backup? The Media servers are specced' as follows (3 of them)
Dell PowerEdge 2950 2 x Dual Core Xeon Processor 5060s 2x2MB Cache, 3.20Ghz 1066FSB 4 x 1GB 667Mhz Ram 2 x Braodcom Gigabit TOE Nics (onboard) 4 x Intel Quad Gigabit Nics (PCIe add on) File Server - PowerEdge 2950 1 x Gigabit Nic (Back-end / Exclusive Backup Use) Windows 2003 NTFS Volumes Could I reasonably expect this media server to be backing up (in theory) 6 gigabit streams at the same time while "indexing" one of those streams from a file server? If I had to I suppose I could have one media server do nothing except backup the file system until its done then accept other backups, but that seems like a waste. Does anyone have any numbers? I'm worried the processors won't be able to keep up with the data stream and impact the flash backup speed or even worse the other 5 backups going on simultaneously (in theory.) -Jonathan _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu