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[Veritas-bu] Backing up Netapp Filers

2001-10-16 09:58:30
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Netapp Filers
From: Steve Kappel <steve.kappel AT veritas DOT com> (Steve Kappel)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 08:58:30 -0500 (CDT)
Grant Melvin <Grant.Melvin AT netapp DOT com> wrote:
...
>       A number of options are open to you:
>
>       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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VERITAS Software (Engineering)     steve AT stevekappel DOT com (Personal)


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