[Veritas-bu] Backing up Netapp Filers
2001-10-16 09:58:30
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[Veritas-bu] Backing up Netapp Filers |
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Steve Kappel <steve.kappel AT veritas DOT com> (Steve Kappel) |
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Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:58:30 -0500 (CDT) |
Grant Melvin <Grant.Melvin AT netapp DOT com> wrote:
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> A number of options are open to you:
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> 1. Attach drive/library to each filer to perform local backups
> 2. Attach drive library to one filer and perform 3-way (filer->filer)
backups
> 3. Attach filers to a Brocade switch and connect to a FC tape library
> 4. Attach a NDMP/GbE tape library to your network and backup filers to
it
> 5. Discuss with VERITAS about possible support for remote
(filer->server) backups
...
Option 6 is what Kevin suggested...
Kevin Vapiwala <kevin.v.vapiwala AT ssmb DOT com> wrote:
>If you're using a robotic library, You can dedicated a set of drives per
>filer and have the robot directly attached to the master filer
There are SCSI libraries that allow you to break up the drives
in a library onto separate SCSI cables. You can still attach
the robot to one of the filers. You can also attach some of
the drives directly to your media server.
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Steve Kappel steve.kappel AT veritas DOT com
VERITAS Software (Engineering) steve AT stevekappel DOT com (Personal)
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