Re: [Networker] D2D in production

...filesystem corruption?   Are you using vxfs for your filesytem?  What
type of filesystem does Legato reccommend; or, are the Advanced File type
devices raw veritas volumes?

Its interesting because many of these filsystems have been around for years.

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems


On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:23:55 +0200, Uwe Weber <uwe.weber AT TELEOS-WEB DOT DE>
wrote:

>Hello Joel,
>>
>> Is anyone using Advanced File Typed devices as their main backup
>> targets and then cloning/staging to tape a necessary?
>Yes, we are doing in an installation for a customer.
>
>> What type of
>> disk is your AFTDs on?  Any advice on setting the devices up?
>
>They are on EMC CX ATAs, four devices, each about 4 TB in size.
>Volume management is done by Veritas Volume Manager. Host based
>striping using the vm and striping over all storage busses of the CXs
>improved performance considerably.
>
>But unfortunately we have had some issues with the AFDTs. Backups have
>aborted without apparent reasons or helpful error messages. Legato
>suspects some kind of corruption of the file device, but they can not
>explain why or how this happened.  We had to relabel the volumes
>of the advfts to get our backup working again. Whether this a permanent
>solution or whether this problem might come back is unknown.
>
>Due to EMCs engagement in this matter (thanks), Legato is now examining
>the problem at developer level. May be they will find out what happened
>and provide a solution.
>
>Regards,
>uwe
>
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