Re: [Veritas-bu] Master Server Preference
2007-07-11 13:59:33
We started with backup exec few years ago
then we migrated to nbu, we still have a few Unix and linux which I have to
backup. I will let you know if they suggest MP7, By the way I am not touching
that upgrade, Symantec will be doing it, always good to have some else to
blame.
From: Martin Ruslan
[mailto:mit.martin AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007
1:36 PM
To: Dibonge,
Rudy
Cc:
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Master
Server Preference
Only an opinion,
if all of your environment is Windows, why didn't you try backup exec? more
cheaper.. :)
Unless if on the future you'll have mix environment,then you have to go with
nbu.
And would you kindly let me know Rudy, if Symantec suggest you to upgrading to
MP 7.
Although I'm not see the related between the new MP with the upgrade progress,
because when you upgrade, you have to uninstall the current version, right?
Or maybe the MP's will impact to the catalog also, I don't know..
maybe others can give me an explanation?
That will be helpful, thanks..
mTz
On 7/12/07, Dibonge, Rudy < Rudy.Dibonge AT hmshost DOT com> wrote:
Thanks, I will be having a meeting with Symantec tomorrow to
get their opinion. We are 90% windows and will be nice to have my master and
media all in windows.
Rudy
Hi Rudy,
There are several issues here. First,
you cannot upgrade from Unix to Windows (or Windows to Unix) for a master
server. No form of migration is supported – you would have to build
a brand new environment and import your tapes to get them cataloged.
We used to run a Windows master server back
in 3.4 days and migrated to Solaris (yes, it was unsupported and really, really
ugly to do but we pulled it off). We don't regret the migration at
all – the management tools on Solaris are *much* more complete than they are on Windows and adding things
on (e.g. mrtg monitoring of tape drives, queues, tapes, etc.) is much easier to
do.
Earlier this week we rebooted our Windows
media server and it took another couple of reboots to bring the tape drives
back. This is unfortunately typical. In several years, I only
remember 1 or 2 reboots required on our Solaris media servers due to tape drive
issues.
If you're a 100% Windows shop, then a
Windows master server might make sense (although something like Commvault might
make even more sense since end users can do their own restores).
Otherwise, leave the master on a Unix platform of some sort – HPUX,
Solaris, or Linux. I don't have any AIX experience.
That's my 2 bits worth.
…/Ed
We
are planning an upgrade from version 5.0 MP1 to version 6.0 MP4. Currently we
use an HPUX master server and we are thinking of migrating to a windows 2003
master server. I am not sure how stable a windows master server is. Do anyone
have experience with a windows master server. From most of the posting, it
seems most folks are using Unix master server.
Thanks,
Rudy
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