Joel,

Yes it is, but you want take sure you don't do all the Fulls at once.

Having said that, if you can do that, you could probably use the avamar tape
out. It's biggest problem is it is slooooooooooooooooooooow

Siobhan

-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Fisher [mailto:jfisher AT wfubmc DOT edu] 
Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 12:14 AM
To: Siobhan Ellis; NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU; Siobhan Ellis
Subject: RE: [Networker] Avamar

Hey Siobhan,

My thinking for the lack of tape out, is that I would just run one
backup a month to regular tape.  That fits well with how we do it now.
Is that still feasible with avamar?

Thank you for your response.

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Siobhan Ellis
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 4:57 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Avamar

It works
It's good for virtual environments
It has no tape out facility worth speaking about... so think about your
retention periods.

Siobhan Ellis

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Joel Fisher
Sent: Wednesday, 1 July 2009 6:54 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Avamar

Hey Guys,

 

We are getting ready to ink the deal on a big VMware environment, but
the outstanding issue is still... how do we back it all up.

 

To protect the VMDKs we are planning on doing snapshots and replication
within  our storage arrays.  But the problem is that we have a
requirement to provide file level restore capability, and we don't want
to spend hours of admin time mounting VMDK snapshots and restoring
individual files. 

 

Conceptually, avamar seems like the "perfect" backup solution for a
VMware environment.  Global dedup, minimize server resources used for
the backup, etc...  But I've never used it, so can someone who has had
some hands on experience give me some insight on whether it really
works, and what the draw backs are.  How well does it tie into
networker.  We are currently 7.4.4(with lots of patches)

 

Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

 

As far as scale goes... we will probably top out at 600-700 guests
factoring in some creep.

 

Thanks!

Joel


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