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Re: [Networker] Is saving indexes to disk a good idea?
2009-06-09 14:53:10
On 6/9/09 2:16 PM, Tom Birkenbach wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup scheme and am
wondering if backing up indexes and bootstrap to disk is a good idea.
Tom,
I have a media pool that is set up to hold just indexes and bootstraps. That media pool is
comprised of two AFTD's on a Data Domain device. Those two AFTD's are the only storage devices
directly attached to my nsrserverhost (all other devices are attached to storage nodes). Every
group is allowed to back up to this media pool -- so all indexes and bootstraps are saved
there. The daily save group that has just the nsrserverhost and nmc server in it is the ONLY
group that I have automatic cloning turned on for (so my bootstrap gets cloned to tape every
day). For the regular client index save sets, I clone the regular fulls via script to reduce
the contention on the tape drives.
I figure that if someone bombs the backup data center that it wouldn't do me a lot of good
to have the indexes for the incrementals that were destroyed in the tape library that stands
next to the backup server.
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