That’s the same method I’ve used. I think
there is a little fluff in the 2% and you can also obviously cut this down by
compressing the catalog after 30 days or whatever. The only thing I
noticed is you are calculating 30 incrementals per month, I’m assuming
you actually do 6 incrementals per week (no incremental on same day as full) so
it would be 24 not 30. Also, just out of my own curiosity, why are your
monthly fulls less than your weekly fulls? I would expect them to be
equal or possibly the monthly would be larger if you are including more data.
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009
11:40:35 -0400
From: Todd Jackxon
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to
properly calculate the Catalog
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Hello All,
I am trying to use the
formula for calculating the catalog and not sure about the results. Has anyone
Calculated the catalog using the formula in the Performance Tuning guide?
Can you please explain how
to properly do this?
1 ? "When the formula
states total backups" ... is this for one Full backup of all data for one
day?
Schedule
Incremental - daily -
retention 5 weeks
Weekend Full - retention 6
weeks (only first 3 weekends) Month-End - retention 1 year (last Saturday of
the month)
Below is my attempt to
calculate this. Any clarification would be appreciated.
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614GB data back
up * 3 Full Backups (1842GB) * 2 months retention (3684GB)
= 3.5 TB
Full
447GB data back
up * 1 Full Monthly Backup (447GB) * 12 months retention
(5364GB) = 5.2 TB
Month End Full
122GB
incremental * 30 incr
backups monthly (3660GB) * 5 week retention (1.25
months) 4605GB = 3.5 TB
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3.5 TB incr
3.5 TB Weekly Full
5.2 TB Month-End Full
= 12.2 TB = Netbackup
catalog size (2%) = 240GB Catalog space
This does not seem right???
Thanks
Jack