Keith Roy wrote:

> At my place of enjoyment we run Networker 7.3.3 on Solaris 2.8.  We have 
> been backing up our indexes for years using lockfs -w <filesystem> 
> /metaoffline dx dx / lockfs -u <filesystem>, doing a ufsdump to SDLT media 
> over a 1GB network link, and then onlining the mirror.  The whole process 
> takes somewhere between 18 and 23 hours.  Our indexes are getting close to 
> 200GB and the time it takes to sync the mirrors after the ufsdump has 
> completed is quickly approaching the next run of the backup.
> 
> To nip this in the butt, has anyone used the Solaris's fssnap to perform 
> index backups?  This looks like a good way to perform the index backups. 
> In thinking about this, I am wondering how much space will be required for 
> the backend-store, and whether or not Networker will take kindly to this. 
> Any insight you may have is appreciated.

What's wrong with using NetWorker to backup the indices?

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