Hi Austin, I had been using Sun Solaris/Sparc servers until 2006 when I started doing disk-based backups and de-duplication. Neither the OS nor the hardware (a Sun V240) could handle the backup/deduplication load (The performance was dismal).
I now have 4 active backup servers each of which handles 14 active backups and 2 duplications concurrently with loads less than 5. These servers are the Sun X4200 (dual-core opteron cpus) with 2 emulex fiber hbas. Each hba is connected to a 3TB Nexsan SATABoy disk array and 8 LTO drives (4 LTO4 and 4 LTO3) via Brocade Silkworm 3900 fiber switches. On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:30:53 -0400 > From: "Austin Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux Master Server > To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Does anyone have a reason *not* to use NetBackup on Linux as a > master/media server? I've heard that Linux makes a great media > server, but how about a master? > > My options are Solaris/SPARC and Linux/x86_64 and I was wondering if > anyone had found a concrete reason why Linux was inferior. > > Thanks, > Austin > > > ------------------------------ --Kathy _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
