It's a partially fair question.  For the most part we all have standard 
environments in that some aspects and very standard and some servers/solutions 
are very unique.  So from a ratio perspective, if I am way off, which it 
appears I am, then I know I have a lot of work to do.  But the key is the 
ratio, not the actual numbers.  50 Policies is not a big deal of you have 1,000 
clients.  But if you have 50 policies and 25 servers you *might* have an issue. 
 The ratio is just a guideline for me.  Not a "target".

My ratio is 1.26 servers per policy and we only have 85 servers defined in NBU 
(We are not backing up almost half the servers we have).

Because my numbers are so far off "the norm", I can now see with great 
confidence that a policy audit is very necessary and shifting around policies 
and creating all new policies to regroup servers is not a waste of time by any 
stretch of the imagination.

Thanks to all who answered.

Phil Koster
Network Administrator
City of Grand Rapids
Direct: 616-456-3136
Helpdesk: 456-3999

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From: Liddle, Stuart [mailto:liddles at amgen.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:06 PM
To: Peter DrakeUnderkoffler; Koster, Phil
Cc: veritas-bu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] How many servers per NBU Policy? - Poll

I agree with Phil on this...we group clients by dataset and proximity to the 
nearest media server.  So, that number is high for things like Exchange backups 
where we have over 20 Exchange servers and low for other apps where we might 
only have 1 server.

This is different from our old model where we had as many as 50 clients per 
policy just because they were all OS backups of the same kind of Windows box.

--stuart

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Peter 
DrakeUnderkoffler
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 7:49 AM
To: Koster, Phil
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Not really a useful stat.  Everyone's NBU implementation is generally different 
based on lots of factors.  Clients may or may not be bundled into policies for 
business or security reasons, platform commonalities, and of course schedule 
windows.
As a first stab,
I usually bundle systems with similar services into the same policy.  But that 
almost always gets split up a bit.  Database backups generally tend to be one 
client per policy, but there are exceptions.  As usual, everyones millage may 
vary.

Peter DrakeUnderkoffler
Xinupro, LLC
617-834-2352



Koster, Phil wrote:
> We ran some numbers and have about 1.26 servers per policy. I was just 
> wondering where everyone else is in that regard.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Phil Koster
> Network Administrator
> City of Grand Rapids
> Direct: 616-456-3136
> Helpdesk: 456-3999
> 
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