[Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]
2006-04-27 01:52:46
Well put Wayne! Our setup is simple, easy to manage, plus (and a big thing),
it sorts itself out! No real intervention required!
Regards
Simon Weaver
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Windows Domain Administrator
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-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne T Smith [mailto:wtsmith AT maine DOT edu]
Sent: 26 April 2006 16:28
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Volume Pools [recommendations please]
KISS = Keep It Simple, Stupid!
It's easy to over-manage NetBackup, because it lets you. I recommend
that you keep things simple, and deviate from the simple when it's
evident that you should.
If the NetBackup pool contains all of your assigned tapes and the
Scratch pool contains all of your available tapes, life is simple. How
many tapes are in use? Count the number of tapes in NetBackup. How many
tapes are available for backups? Count the number of tapes in Scratch.
All free tapes are available for the next backup.
Cleaning tapes, if any, will be in pool NONE. I use another pool for
"suspect" tapes ... tapes that have had "an event" such as a read or
write error. If on v6.0, you probably have pool for catalog backups.
If you duplicate/vault tapes, you probably have another couple of pools
(one for catalog backups; one for data) for your catalog and image copies.
Why make more pools? One reason might be to insulate free tapes in a
pool from others. For example, in my shop our Oracle Agent backups take
precedence over file system backups. We don't want independent file
system backups "filling" a tape pool, possibly delaying backups and
causing our archive redo log spaces to fill. I'm sure there are other
reasons for more pools, but in general, I recommend: KISS. :-)
cheers, wayne
Wilkinson, Alex wrote, in part, on 4/25/2006 8:46 PM:
> What is "best practice" with regards to Volume Pools ?
>
> We are thinking of using a single Volume Pool for all of our data
> tapes. Is it good practice to use the "Netbackup" Volume pool for this
> situation ?
>
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