[Veritas-bu] Netbackup Architecture

It's not possible to say which requires more power for all
environments.  But in most cases, a media server does a lot more work
driving a few drives than a dedicated master server which is just
managing the catalog and scheduler.

Configuring a master to have three media servers is very easy.
RE-configuring your enviornment to demote your three master servers to
media servers and introducing a new master is non-trivial to down
right hard, depending on your level of understanding of the product
under the covers.

O'Shea, Don writes:
> I have the opportunity to rearchitect are existing backup solution(using
> existing equipment, of course) and I had a couple of questions. We have
> about 6 or 7 separate network  LAN's that I am looking to connect
> together. I am thinking of turning the current masters(3 of them) into
> media managers, and then building a new master from an existing spare
> that we have. What I am not sure of is, what in Netbackup would require
> a more powerful server, the master or the media managers. I want to have
> just one master that works with the 3 media managers to back up all the
> clients.
> 
> Secondly, is it difficult to configure one master to use 3 media
> managers? 
> 
> Any insight from people who have done this before would be appreciated. 
> 
> Don O'Shea 
> NT Support 
> BCE Emergis Inc. 
> (905)707-4000 Ext. 3765 
> Fax: (905) 707-4329 
> mailto:don.oshea AT emergis DOT com <mailto:don.oshea AT emergis DOT com>  
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> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have the opportunity to rearchitect are 
> existing backup solution(using existing equipment, of course) and I had a 
> couple of questions. We have about 6 or 7 separate network&nbsp; LAN's that I 
> am looking to connect together. I am thinking of turning the current 
> masters(3 of them) into media managers, and then building a new master from 
> an existing spare that we have. What I am not sure of is, what in Netbackup 
> would require a more powerful server, the master or the media managers. I 
> want to have just one master that works with the 3 media managers to back up 
> all the clients.</FONT></P>
> 
> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Secondly, is it difficult to configure one 
> master to use 3 media managers?</FONT>
> </P>
> 
> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any insight from people who have done this 
> before would be appreciated.</FONT>
> </P>
> 
> <P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Don O'Shea</FONT>
> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">NT Support</FONT>
> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">BCE Emergis Inc.</FONT>
> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">(905)707-4000 Ext. 3765</FONT>
> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fax: (905) 707-4329</FONT>
> <BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial"><A HREF="mailto:don.oshea AT emergis DOT 
> com">mailto:don.oshea AT emergis DOT com</A></FONT>
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Larry Kingery 
                       Does fuzzy logic tickle?