On Apr 8, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Stewart, Kathleen M wrote:

> I have a research lab that has 10TB of data, that will eventually grow to 
> about 60TB.  The bulk of the data stays the same, and the RTO is just the 
> most recent 7 days of data.  Right now they are using TSM and running an 
> infinite incremental - but I don't think they are ever running the synthetic 
> full.  I do not have a number for their change rate per week.
> 
> The responsibility for the backups is moving to our group.  The data is a lot 
> of small text files, saved all over the file system in different directories 
> by different people. 
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get this data backed up?  We are 
> looking at Avamar, but we don't currently own it.  We would like to use our 
> existing Networker environment.
 
That server needs to be re-architected, it seems to me. Its file system needs 
to be split up into separate smaller file systems. Expecting to back up 10TB of 
data in a reasonable period of time is unrealistic.

To sign off this list, send email to listserv AT listserv.temple DOT edu and 
type "signoff networker" in the body of the email. Please write to 
networker-request AT listserv.temple DOT edu if you have any problems with this 
list. You can access the archives at 
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/networker.html or
via RSS at http://listserv.temple.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=NETWORKER