Our current setup has 1 master/media server combo, so the delay will be
more adverse than your setup. Later this year we will be purchasing a
second STK tape library, and adding in SSO for our SAN though...
RCA
"Bazinet; Steve" wrote:
>
> Ryan, the only issues with increasing the number of pools are:
>
> 1) You will most likely require more tapes then if you had used fewer pools.
> Now, how much more will all depend on the number of media servers and
> drives. I have 6 media server and 20 Drives and when I was asked to split
> my pools by business units, my tape count when up by about 50%
>
> 2) When you split your pools your backup window may grow because Netbackup
> may not be as efficient as in the past with one or two pools. To get around
> this make sure classes using pool A are not waiting on tape drives because
> other backups are running and using pool B.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Steve Bazinet
> SCB Enterprise Solutions
> 480-348-7347
> Steve.Bazinet AT scb DOT com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: RYAN ANDERSON [mailto:RYAN_ANDERSON AT udlp DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 8:48 AM
> To: Veritas NBU
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Duplicates & Multiple Pools?
>
> We've made a new script for duplicating backup images quicker than we
> are now by feeding the same script self made configuration files. This
> will allow for multiple duplications to happen at once and utilize all
> of our new DLT drives we have, instead of doing it serially (or buying
> bpvault). I haven't put it in production yet, but I wanted to bounce
> off of all you one part of my plan for implimenting it.
>
> I plan on splitting off 3 new pools from our current 'Oracle' and
> 'NetBackup' pools. This way backups won't be made to tapes in the same
> pool, and there thus won't be any fighting/waiting for tapes during
> duplication.
>
> Have any of you seen any issues in increasing the amount of pools? Have
> any of you implimented anything like this before?
>
> If there is any interest in this script, I can email it to the list or
> individually.
>
> RCA
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