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[Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 and NTFS mount points

2005-04-01 14:01:14
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU 5.1 and NTFS mount points
From: ewilts AT ewilts DOT org (Ed Wilts)
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:01:14 -0600
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:42:04AM -0600, Ungaro, Matt wrote:
>       Does NBU 5.1 handle NTFS volumes that are mounted to directories
> instead of drive letters? 

The standard client works.  At least it does for us with 5.0MP4.

FlashBackup didn't use to work with mount points.  I don't know if that
has been fixed yet.

> I have a SQL cluster with multiple SQL instances,
> and I'm starting to run low on drive letters (3 drives per instance), so to
> alleviate the problem I am going to start assigning one drive per instance,
> but then mounting the other necessary volumes to paths instead of assigning
> them drive letters. But before I do this, I want to make sure that Netbackup
> understands this. Thanks in advance for any help.

We're up to about 45 mount points on one of our clusters...

        .../Ed

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