Author: David Palmer <dwpalmer AT cazenovia DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:36:15 -0500
I am looking at ways to speed up our backups as our data continues to grow. We currently have an equallogic group that stores much of our information. One idea that we had for speeding up backups is
I back up a volume from an Equalogic SAN like this. You do have to be careful; you should limit visibility of the base volume to the active server and the snapshot to the backup server, or "odd" thin
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:43:44 -0500
You say "mounting the data volumes as read only for backups". Do you mean mount the production servers' data volumes via NFS onto a separate server where you will back them up? This is likely to be s
Author: David Palmer <dwpalmer AT cazenovia DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:41:09 -0500
I have never looked into fsfreeze thanks for that little nugget. Two of the main file servers are windows based so I think that I will use the bacula client vss support to freeze the data for those t
Author: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:48:08 -0500
Sorry, I missed the "SAN" in the subject line. You may or may not be able to perform backups directly from the SAN. If you can, it is likely to be a much faster way. If you're planning to mount the s
Author: David Palmer <dwpalmer AT cazenovia DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:55:12 -0500
Phil, I am planning on mounting a snapshot on the SAN as Chris has indicated he is currently doing. David -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-
If you don't want to go for DB-specific backup tools, you can get a consistent backup of most databases with a filesystem or volume snapshot, as long as you prepare the database for the snapshot. For