As our EMC Centera increases in usage, our backups have been taking longer and longer. We do a full backup on Friday nights and differentials during the week. The full backup is now taking over 20 ho
Author: "Wood, R A (Bob)" <WoodR AT CHEVRON DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:38:54 +0100
Sems like a pretty limited set of options given by EMC, that surprises me a bit since there must be some other options. Now, I don't know about CBRM module (I suspect it is a bit like NDMP is to Netw
Unfortunetly, it's kinda a hack. The Centera doesn't support NDMP at all. What they developed is a NDMP tape server that runs on the same box as the legato server (it could be on another box, but doe
Author: "Wood, R A (Bob)" <WoodR AT CHEVRON DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:15:52 +0100
What about the clients that have their data on the Centera, is there any possibility there? Bob Wood Senior Technical Analyst ITC - EMEAE London eHub Chevron Limited 1 Westferry Circus, Canary Wharf
Eh? This is a Centera, not Celera (blame EMC for that one). The Centera is a CAS (Content Addressable Storage). Think about it like a big WORM drive. We archive email, IM, and transaction logs for co
Author: "Wood, R A (Bob)" <WoodR AT CHEVRON DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:39:56 +0100
Ah, I see now. It is an archive box... Well, in that case, how often do you NEED to back it up? Or, more importantly, how often do you need to do a full backup? As it is just archive data, does it re
Author: Fazil Saiyed <fazil.saiyed AT ANIXTER DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:53:43 -0400
Hello, Now 20 hrs is long but in purely archving mode is not so bad, seperate the pool on Networker side to keep the date confined and so your offsite tapes make it out of the date center in time. Se