Thanks John!
Now I am finally getting understood.. sorry but I come mostly from
Legato Environment where there is a similar concept caled DDS or Dynamic
Drive Sharing -- where one server controls the sharingf and mounting of
shared drives. Going back now to the NetBackup Model:
I have currently Server A - acting as Master and at the same time my
Media Server hooked up to an 8 LTO Drive STK Library. I have all my
other Servers (B-Z) as simple Netbackup clients backed up over the
network. Recently, we expanded our SAN so that our large servers now
also can see the LTO Library's drives. We also acquired 8 Shared Drive
licenses (aka SSO Keys).
Under a Legato Environment, when I install my DDS Keys on my Main Backup
Server (NBU's equiv to a Master/Media Server).. I need not install any
other software on the clients that I now want to backup via DDS -- just
a simple configuration to add the client's to the DDS configuration and
we're all set.
Some years back, I played arounf with NBU 3.5 and the same mechanism
worked. I just installed the Shared Drives key on my Master/Media..
added the clients as drive hosts and presto.. I can now backup my
clients to the shared drives.
So in my current environment, do I really need to have another Media
Server configuration outisde of my existing Master/Media so I can share
drives and backup SSO-way my other clients that have access to the
drives/Library?
Ms. Carr to date is the 2nd Veritas Person saying that I need to have
media manager on each client that I will be backing up SSO -way .
John Dong wrote:
>Here are the steps that I follow to setup my SSO environment.
>
>1. On host A, install NBU 4.5 server and configure it as master/media server.
>Install master and SSO license
>2. On host B, install NBU 4.5 server. When it asks to set up as master, answer
>no. Install master and SSO license.
>3. Go back to host A and configure SSO drive via java GUI, which ask to probe
>host B for drive sharing. NBU will do the rest for you.
>4. You can add host C by repeating the above steps.
>
>Don't use SAN media manager license because it will limit you to backup local
>host only (in the above case, host B only). I don't think there is a separate
>package just for media server. There is only server package, which include
>everything, and a client package.
>
>John
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-admin
>AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Nelson T. Caparroso
>Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 4:02 PM
>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Do I Need Media Manager to be Installed on Clients I
>will be Backing up Using SSO ?
>
>We currently have a confusion as to how to proceed.
>
>Currently, we have a NBU 4.5 Environment where in we have one Server
>acting as Master/Media Server to several clients. Clients are currently
>backed up as simple network clients but over the last couple of months -
>some of the clients have reached multi-TB in disk storage capacity. We
>have 2 SDLT Libraries each with 8 drives currently hooked up to the
>Master/Media Server -- a 4 x 1 Ghz HP-UNIX Server.
>
>Lately we've decided to go the route of dynamic drive sharing - or SSO
>(Shared Storage Option) - so the large servers can be backed up locally
>- data goes from disk to tape drictly on the tape drive that is
>presented locally via SAN. All of our servers "sees" and have access to
>the Library drives. And this is where the confusion begins..
>
>We want to mainatin our Master/Media server as is - and want it to
>manage the sharing of drives to the clients that we want to backup
>locally. Veritas support however is telling us that we need to have
>Media Manager loaded on the client machines apart from tyhe media
>manager that we have on our current master/media server. Is this a true
>statement? The last time I used NBU (3.5), I never had to install
>anything on the client side to back it up SSO-way -- All I had to do was
>to install the SSO Keys on my Master/Media server and add the client as
>a drive host (of course knowing what the drive devices on the client
>are).. Otehr VEritas techies are also mentioning --- we need a SAN
>Media Manager license to enable SSO.. I am confused...
>
>Any inputs? Am I not correct in my assumption that SSO requires only
>one Normal Media Manager license and just the Shared Drives key
>installed with no additional software on the clients that will become
>SSO clients?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
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