I know ya'll will think it's crazy and negligent, but FWIW, on our
legacy (5.1MP5), restore-only environment with a 600 GB catalog, NFS
works pretty well.

-- nick

> I'll add the voiice of experience.  I tried it and ended up backing it
> out rapidly.  Netbackup (v4 probably) didn't like NFS.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dominik
> Pietrzykowski
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:01 PM
> To: bob944 AT attglobal DOT net; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Cc: ssloh AT singnet.com DOT sg
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] catalog in nfs mount point
>
>
>
>
> The final nail on that coffin !!!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob944 AT attglobal DOT net [mailto:bob944 AT attglobal DOT net]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 January 2008 9:20 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Cc: ssloh AT singnet.com DOT sg
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] catalog in nfs mount point
>
> > Anybody put their NetBackup Catalog in nfs mount
> point from NetApp?
> > Good or Bad ? What need to watch out ?
> > best practices setting ?
>
> >From the NetBackup 6.5 Installation Guide for
> Unix, p. 14:
>
>     Symantec does not support installation of
>     NetBackup in an NFS-mounted directory. File
>     locking in NFS-mounted file systems can be
>     unreliable.
>
> p. 30
>
>     Note: Symantec does not support installing
>     the EMM on an NFS-mount.
>
> >From the NetBackup 6.5 Admin Guide for Windows, p.
> 347, discussing catalog backup to disk:
>
>     The NetBackup binary image catalog is more
>     sensitive to the location of the catalog.
>     Catalog backups that are stored on a remote
>     file system may have critical performance
>     issues. NetBackup does not support saving
>     catalogs to a remote file system such as
>     NFS or CIFS.
>
> p. 349, regarding relocating the image catalog:
>
>     Note: NetBackup does not support saving the
>     catalog to a remote file system. Therefore,
>     Symantec advises against moving the image
>     catalog to a remote file system such as NFS
>     or CIFS.
>
>
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