It just depends on if you have a "need" to have the data only travel the
SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN.

I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you
want.  But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant
by default that it backed up over the SAN.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of William
Brown
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server

Actually if you think about it a SAN Media Server is no use as an FT
Media Server - as it cannot backup other clients.  Strangely it could
restore them as SAN Media Servers are allowed to do alternate client
restores...just not backups.

William D L Brown


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com
Sent: 12 January 2010 15:25
To: thomas.espe AT gmail DOT com; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server

It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just
have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server.

As such it can only back itself up.

If you have direct attached drives you issue.
If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that
server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives
in the library)  If you want your normal media server and your SAN media
server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO
license so they can all share the same drives.

Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the
san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport -
you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific
hardware.


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Thomas
Hemmingby Espe
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server

We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give
the system direct access to tape drives
due to high throughput requirements.

I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and
set up this. Is it so that we should perform
an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only
the license that is different?

Sincerely

-- 
Thomas H. Espe
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