That could get very expensive.
Here we essentially made only our big (UNIX) database servers media servers so they could back themselves up directly to the tape drives. For most other purposes we do backups via the master server itself. For our Windows servers we do have one separate Windows media server as it seemed Windows clients backup better that way. You should base your media servers over how much load you think you want on each not on number of tape drives. (We let all media servers see all tape drives rather than setting up separate storage units for pairs of drives as you seem to imply you'll do.) ________________________________ From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Will Tucker Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 2:45 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Media Servers Per Tape Drive Ratio All, How do you determine how many media servers per tape drive in your environments? I have 10 LTO3 tape drives and have been using 2 media servers per tape drive. Thank you. Will Tucker | Storage Administrator Enterprise Technology Services Manhattan Associates, Inc. Direct +1 678.597.6644 Phone +1 770.955.7070 Fax +1 814.295.9676 Mobile +1 770.490.5404 wtuc...@manh.com http://www.manh.com/ _____________________________________________ The Supply Chain People(r) Manhattan Associates From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of WEAVER, Simon (external) Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 1:55 PM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Size buffers / Performance Tune on Ex2k3 with LTO4 All Just a quick question, but I used some default NetBackup settings to tune Exchange backups and restores. If I move to a different library with LTO4 (rather than LTO3), do I need to reconfigure the settings? Windows 2003 SAN Media Exchange, with Master Win2k3 SP2 Regards Simon This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. -o- Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 Registered Office: Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments. ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. Thank you. ----------------------------------
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