Everyone will have a different answer. 

In our case, our largest SQL server backups are development servers, and
can be as large as 2+ TB.  

Our solution is to make each one of these servers a dedicated storage
node, over Fiber attached tape drives.  When the backup starts running,
it has it's own dedicated tape drive, separate from the other backups
running. Backups still take a while, but much improved over GigE.
Backups went from 36-48 hours down to 15-18 hours. That's a long time,
but something we can live with.  We run FULL on the weekend, with
differential backups during the week. 

David M. Browning Jr.
IT Project Coordinator Enterprise Backups and Help Desk

 
 
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of sunman1
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:09 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Backups of Large clients 1+ TBs

What is a standard configuration with NetWorker to backup a system with
a large amount of data?  We have systems with 600-1000MB file systems,
and MSSQL systems with 2-4TBs of data. With our 100BaseT network
connections these clients can take days to backup.  What is a better
way, GigE, StorageNodes, VTLs, Data Deduplication...?

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