What's their perceived "problem" that would lead to this rather dubious 
solution?
-M

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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Bob Stump
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:12 AM
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Cc: greg_carter AT symantec DOT com
Subject: [Veritas-bu] media server cutoff point


A client is currently using 150GB as the threshold for determining whether a 
server should be a NetBackup media server or client.
This results in 30 SAN media servers using SSO and 730 clients that are 
multiplexed in about 70 policies.
The environment is the large STK SL8500 with 20 9940B tape drives
The client is converting all NetBackup clients that have over 36GB of data into 
media servers.

stop laughing....This is serious.


Please help me demonstrate the folly of this proposal.
tape-drives will be shoeshining as the media servers will not be able to get 
the data to the drives fast enough
license fees will be astronomical for SAN media servers
tape drives will not be available when needed and jobs will fail with 134/196 
errors
the number of tapes will increase since media servers do not share tapes
The number of policies will cause bpsched to crunch continually
The catalog backup will never start or finish.

other reasons...please


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