Thx for the input --- I have 'given' in to the fact that I have to back up 
'absurd' amounts of data -- as was said before, 'millions' is unfortunately a 
low estimate whe it comes to servers.  Thankfully 'my' L80 is on the job. 

Thanks for the input...


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-----Original Message-----
From: len boyle <len.boyle AT sas DOT com>
To: Priddy, John <JPriddy AT thegoldensource DOT com>; veritas-bu AT 
mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Thu Dec 01 23:49:17 2005
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Typical catalog sizes?

Hello John, 
 
23 gig is not too bad. The space used as others have written, depends on the 
number of files backed up, which depends on how many files you have, how many 
times you back them up, and how long  you retain them. 
 
We have one catalog that is over 600gig. The only issue is if we ever have to 
recover the catalog, it will be a little while. 
 
len

----- Original Message ----- 
From: John Priddy <mailto:jpriddy AT thegoldensource DOT com>  
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:16 PM
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Typical catalog sizes?

I currently backup approx 40 servers of Solaris, Windows, and Linux.  I was 
poking around on the backup server the other day which contains the catalog and 
i saw that it was at 23 gigs.  Is this normal?  We are a development shop and 
have what I would consider more 'files per server' than usual, especially on 
the older Solaris machines used for software development, but 23 gigs seems a 
bit over the top.  It doesn't appear to be related to the amount of data on 
each machine, because some of the servers with the most data are also the 
smallest in size in the catalog.  As an example a machine that currently has 
almost 2TB of storage is taking up 500meg of catalog, but another with less 
than 40gigs of storage is taking up 2GB of catalog.  This doesn't appear to be 
related to the platform as the linux and windows machines exibit the same 
catalog/storage relationships.  Browsing through backups from the java console 
and backups of the db itself s! eem to be pretty quick.  

My question is do most of you see catalogs of sizes like this?  Our overall raw 
diskspace would be around 5 or 6 TB i guess. This catalog is only about 3 
months old so far and I only have another 20gigs on that volume left...

Machine is NB 5.1MP3 running on Solaris 10 on SunV240, all clients are 5.1 also.

Thanks

John