Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Advanced Client (flashbackup) w/ Solaris question

2005-08-09 14:54:52
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Advanced Client (flashbackup) w/ Solaris question
From: ddunham AT taos DOT com (Darren Dunham)
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 11:54:52 -0700 (PDT)
> But I'd like to be sure that it's the entire partition that FlashBackup 
> will backup.  If FlashBackup will constrain itself to just backup the 
> entire (ufs) file system, then I can go ahead and allocate the partition 
> in advance, and then only grow the file system as necessary.  If 
> FlashBackup is going to backup the entire partition, then I'll have to go 
> to the extra trouble of expanding the capacity of the partition *and* 
> growing the filesystem a couple of times a year.

I'm pretty certain that's correct.  But other than the overhead of
keeping the free space, is the extra step of enlarging the slice that
much worse?

> I've already determined that I can't use Sun's DiskSuite in conjunction 
> with FlashBackup.  And I'm trying to avoid using the Veritas Volume 
> Manager as well, mainly to avoid the cost.

Ouch.  I wasn't aware of that.  What problems did you run into?

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