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[Networker] Networker + Avamar experiences

2008-09-06 13:19:44
Subject: [Networker] Networker + Avamar experiences
From: brerrabbit <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:14:15 -0400
Greetings

We recently purchased 2 Avamar nodes to use in backing up our ever-growing VM 
environment.  I'd be very interested in hearing anyone's experiences with 
Avamar and Networker playing together particularly if you use the NW 7.4 
combined agent or configured Networker to perform NDMP backups of the Avamar 
datastore.

It's our intention to set up one of our nodes as a Networker storage node and 
then replicate the data to the second node at the DR site.  We're currently 
running 7.3.3 with intentions to go to 7.4 sp2 in the near future.

I've heard that the NDMP backup for the Avamar is a real beast, but we use NDMP 
for our NAS environment and it generally works fine.  I haven't spoken with 
anyone that has actually done an NDMP backup of the Avamar so I wonder if it's 
more rumor than truth.  Management isn't totally comfortable yet with the idea 
of being physical tape free, so I'm exploring options.   We're also considering 
configuring a separate client entry for each VM that would backup to tape 
occasionally rather than the Avamar node, which has it's own set of issues.  
Just curious to see other folks thinking.

Thanks!

-brerrabbit

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