Hi Dale,

Atleast two more tape drives are needed in my opinion. I'd feel more
confortable with 6. Just due to restores, slow clients, failures etc. Is
that 2TB for a Full weekend backup ? What are the nightly incrementals ?

The problem you'll have is that windows clients tend to pump out about
10-15MB/s when well tuned so expect less if not. The UNIX ones should
perform quite well, especially the databases.

A T2000 would be nice as a master and maybe another as a media server.
Although other options for media servers could be V490 (more $$$) or when
NB6.5 is around and Solaris x64 is supported then the V40z or X4600 would be
the way to go.

You still need to elaborate on some of the details you gave but hope this
helps,

Regards,

Dom


-----Original Message-----
From: netbackup-forum at backupcentral.com
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Sent: Friday, 4 May 2007 5:55 AM
To: VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Hardware Recommendations for new setup


Hi all,

Im planning to move our backup infrastructure onto a centralised platform as
it is currently split between Backup Exec for our Windows tin and BackupEdge
for the Unix / Linux boxes. Generally speaking both backup platforms have
been reliable but we are missing the robustness, flexibility and enterprise
level of NetBackup so I am speccing out some hardware.

I would like to incorporate D2D2T as well so I'd like some recommendations
on hardware (server and staging) and any 'gotchas' on what I've got in mind.
I will be backing up around 100 clients, an equal mix of Windows 2003 /
RHEL, usual Windows file servers, some MS SQL / Informix DB's and an
Exchange cluster. A typical full backup is just under 2TB.

What I have in mind;

Sun Fire Platform (not sure on spec)
Quantum / Adic Scalar i500 with 2 x LTO-3 drives (SCSI)
A staging platform (a NAS device possibly, Quantum Snap server or along
those lines, something compatible with NetBackup before spooling off to
tape)

Any recommendations on the above or your what you currently run in-house
would be great.

Many thanks,

Dale





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