Personally, I am not a fan of Veritas Volume Manager, and I certainly cannot recommend it.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Keating Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 5:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size Build your catalog filesytem using a Logical Volume Manager, such as Veritas Volume Manager (Storage Foundations) on a SAN attached LUN. As your catalog grows you can grow both the LUN and the filesystem hot, without an outage. Or, if you have availability of a recent Enterprise class array such as the HDS USP-V, you can build it on a DP (Dynamic provisioned) LUN (aka thin provisioning) The array presents your server with a large fixed size LUN, even several terabytes, but only occupies as much disk space as needed, initially, then auto allocates disk as needed. Personally, I'd just go the volume manager route. Paul -- > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Dariusz Klar > Sent: March 28, 2008 9:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size > > > Ed, > > I know the general rules, but... Another challenge for me is to > estimate disk space for NetBackup catalog where total amount of data > under NetBackup protection is 3.6 PB (peta bytes) with ability to grow > to 8.5 PB in the future. > > The difference between 1% and 2% of total amount of protected data for > catalog does matter. The difference vary from 36 TB to 85 TB in case > of 1% difference. I need to be more precise. If I will say to my > customer that they have to buy 255 TB (3% of total amount of data in > the future) for NetBackup catalog, I have to be 100% sure what I'm > talking about. > > I called Symantec and with that big data volume they are not 100% sure > about space size for NetBackup catalog. > > In this case "size" does matter ;-) Small mistake can cost a lot of > money. > > regards, > > Darek > > Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Dariusz Klar <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > Recently I noticed that indexes are consuming a lot of > disk space. > > Does > > anyone know the rule, how to plan space for indexes? Looks like > > something has changed since older versions of NetBackup. > > > > > > I don't think anything has changed. The challenge in > planning is that > > the catalog size is based on number of files you're backing up, not > > the size of the files. If you back up a lot of small files, your > > catalog will be much larger than the site that backs up the same > > amount of disk space containint large databases. The longer the > > retentions, the more likely it is that you'll need a larger catalog > > for backing up the same amount of disk space. > > > > The golden rule to remember is to never, ever fill your > catalog disk. > > Use a different file system for your logs since they're the most > > likely thing to fill the disk. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > ==================================================================================== La version française suit le texte anglais. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email may contain privileged and/or confidential information, and the Bank of Canada does not waive any related rights. 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