James Pratt wrote:
> 
> Apologies - Fazil is correct - not sure how I missed it but the -M means
> you are doing network backups, my bad. Not sure why you would not use
> the integrated san part of the celerra there for network-less backups,
> but perhaps that model does not give you a spa2/spb2 FC port. (In my own
> experience, EMC did not offer to do the NDMP setup since it requires
> someone with experience with both nw and celerra - we had to have
> consultants do it the first time for  us, then you watch/read/learn etc.
> etc) .. 
> 
> We set up our tape pools according to group retention times, as we don't
> want space sitting unusable on too many volumes due to networker's way
> of judging when a volume is recyclable, yet want things not too
> cluttered up.
> 
> I can say, networker blows backup exec away once it's  set up and
> working properly - it's rough at first I will agree there though  - in
> our case they botched the install and set it all up with too large of
> volumes on the vtl model they chose, so backups ran out of space fast
> which was a nightmare looking back, but was good in hindsight, since I
> got to learn the hard way and rebuilt it all myself the "proper way"
> after reading the manuals.. 
> 
> jamie
> 
> 
> 
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I'll look to see if the Celerra has a spa2/spb2 FC ports on it.  Networkless 
backups would obviously be the best option.

If we decide, which I think we will to redue our tape pools, what is the proper 
way to do that?  Do I just create a new pool and relabel the volume?  

Suppose I'll try to get my hands on as much information as I can, don't want to 
keep annoying ya'll.  

Again, thanks for all the help.

Jason

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