I would look at synthetics ... not quite as large as you, but I backup around 8TBs on one linux (RHEL 4) server over the weekend (every weekend) and it completes in well under 24 hours. (About 16-20 hours from memory)
The very first backup has to be a full, but once that is out of the way, you should be able to do a full synthetic every weekend in well under 48 hours (I'm going on what I have above so is just a guess - you may be much faster than my infrastructure as its nothing flash ... though it is completely gigabit) I should add that I've been using synthetics on this particular server for around 4.5 years now, and they are reliable and fast - unless you have to "re-seed" the synthetic with an initial full backup; I have had a few go bad such that I have had to re-seed the backup, but that's been rare and only happened 2-3 times in all that time. HIGHLY recommended for large backups. Cheers Crowey From: "Simon Weaver" <simon.wea...@iscl.net> To: <veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu>, Date: 11/04/2012 09:16 PM Subject: [Veritas-bu] Advice & Help - Linux Server 14TB Sent by: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu All I am hoping you can help.... Im not too familiar with Linux, but we have a RedHat Box, that is a VM Guest on an ESX Host, that has RDM's totalling 14TB The backups are done over the LAN - Painfully slow as you can imagine. Im wondering what options I have in terms of trying to improve performance for this client. So far its taking close to 3 days to run. It is on a 1GB Network, as I understand. But does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Si_______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
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