Author: Stuart Lamble <Stuart.Lamble AT ITS.MONASH.EDU DOT AU>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 17:05:54 +1000
Since there seems to be a certain amount of interest on the list, here's a list of things we have (and have not :) tried to date. First, a quick rundown on the filesystem: * 522 GB hardware RAID part
A journalling file system is almost always a better idea and will help with this, but probably won't solve all your problems. VXFS is a good choice, but I like the LSCI products like QFS as well. Sun
Author: Terry Lemons <lemons_terry AT EMC DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:39:59 -0400
I'll echo Jason's suggestion to try a block-level backup. Legato Celestra has been available for several years. Though it doesn't appear to have been widely implemented, it does support Solaris and i
Another product to consider is Legato SnapImage. It takes a snapshot of the filesystem then does a block-level backup. It's effectively the snapshot/block-level functionality from Celestra, without t
Author: Calvin Thomas <calvin.thomas AT NACALOGISTICS DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 15:21:08 -0700
I would recommend you try this: Set up several save streams to backup at the same time. IE instead of using ALL as the backup, use \root, \usr, \data1, \data2, \data3, etc. as your backups. If Tar ca
Author: Davina Treiber <treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:21:40 -0400
using I can't see what you are getting at here. Backing up "All" will still write sessions in parallel in exactly the same way as when you specify them individually, subject to the restrictions of pa