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[Veritas-bu] How Many Netbackup Admins Does It Take ...

2004-10-12 14:55:08
Subject: [Veritas-bu] How Many Netbackup Admins Does It Take ...
From: dlogcher AT mit DOT edu (Dan Logcher)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:55:08 -0400
Denton, Kevin M wrote:

> I believe this all depends on how you define the role of the Netbackup
> Administrators and the dependability of your backup infrastructure.
> 
> I'm currently on a "2 man team" of netbackup administrators. We support 6
> separate backup environments that span 3 separate data centers. We backup
> about 80 TB a week across about 900 clients. We are considered the SAs on
> the backup servers and robots, but we generally don't have accounts much
> less root access on the clients (makes it quite difficult to troubleshoot
> client side issues). IF everything was running optimally, this would be a
> workable situation. However, we are dealing with beyond end of life hardware
> and software for most of our backup infrastructure.

I am a one man show for 2 backup environments in seperate date centers.
Luckily the number of servers are small, a master in each, 3 media and
5 clients in one DC and 5 media server in the other.

TSM has been deployed for all small clients around due to licensing costs.

-- 
Dan