Hello,
One single solution may not solve all your problem, figure out what is the 
most pain today with greatest impact and think long term in the terms of 
effective data management.
Look into Gig E and Jumbo Frames for sure
Dedupe and Hardware compression with Single instance save will also be 
very useful.
Plane for systems and solution that work across OS , vertulization, & 
hardware, be creative and plan ahead.
Look for Vendor neutral software solutions ( for hardware) as much as 
possible if it achieves your objectives and is comparable\compatable 
solution.
Device effective and relevant backup\retention\recover\DR policies and get 
the upper management's approval.
HTH




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I think you are asking the question many of us are dealing with right 
now..........what direction do you go?

We have gig connections, but we have more and more data we need to backup. 
 Do we spend money and resources on a VTL....that still means managing 
tapes.  Do we spend money on a de-dupe solution?  You can eliminate tapes 
if you don't HAVE to send stuff offsite but way more expensive than a VTL 
environment.  Storage nodes will help offload some of the work and storage 
for the networker server, but its a license cost.

Right now for us, with so many OSs (Microsoft, Linux, and Netware), we are 
looking at a data deduplication solution....a hardware solution and not 
software based like Avamar.  Avamar currently can't dedupe SQL or 
Exchange.  I'm sure it will eventually, but that could be a year away.

It's a mystery rapped inside of an enigma.... I think it really is based 
on your budget to decide which way to go.

Kevin

>>> sunman1 <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM> 4/1/2008 10:09 AM >>>
What is a standard configuration with NetWorker to backup a system with a 
large amount of data?  We have systems with 600-1000MB file systems, and 
MSSQL systems with 2-4TBs of data. With our 100BaseT network connections 
these clients can take days to backup.  What is a better way, GigE, 
StorageNodes, VTLs, Data Deduplication...?

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