[Veritas-bu] Advanced Client (flashbackup) w/ Solaris question
2005-08-09 14:54:52
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[Veritas-bu] Advanced Client (flashbackup) w/ Solaris question |
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ddunham AT taos DOT com (Darren Dunham) |
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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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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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