I have a 1TB and backups do take a while...but perhaps the most
annoying thing for me is an images on media report.  The full catalog
has to be scanned anytime you look for what images are on a tape.
Overall though there is no problem with a large catalog as long as you
manage it properly and have good disk to store it on.

On 7/22/10, Donaldson, Mark <Mark.Donaldson AT staples DOT com> wrote:
> It looks like we might be rolling out NB to an all new environment here.
> Dumping the existing product and doing a clean install of NB7.0.
>
> Symantec is recommending two master servers due to the size of the
> catalog.  Their reasoning is not the performance of the backups but
> rather then time necessary to restore the catalog in the event of a
> disaster.  We're not too worried about this aspect of it.  We're more
> likely use snapshot technology or other fast-restore methods. We'd
> rather have one (clustered) master server for the sake of ease of
> deployment.
>
> So - as a sanity check of the huge catalogs, how do you feel about a 1-2
> TB catalog?  Anybody running close to these sizes?
>
> -Mark
>
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