Justin
Your welcome. As Netbackup is going to be the corporate standard, then you
may want to make suggestions and evaluate the needs for your clients.
For example, if you backup SQL, Oracle or Exchange DB, you are going to
require add-ons - which are effectively license keys.
These factors are to be considered when pricing up the Netbackup Family.
If you have over 300, then chances are your backing up HUGE amounts of Data,
most likely in the 20+TB area by now I would hope (or even more!!)
Netbackup does allow backups to be carried out across the WAN and through
firewalls if the need is required. An alternative would be to implement
Netbackup Media Servers.
In essence, these are servers that backup themselves locally using a shared
tape drive(s). Do you happen to have any of the Netbackup System
Administrator guides, as there are some pretty good useful information
articles in there that talks about the planning and installation and tuning
of Netbackup.
As mentioned from the start, I do not know your exact setup, so I can only
guide you, but one would think that someone at your site has knowledge of
what has been done, and what they are now looking to do :-)
Hope this is of some help - again, NOT trying to push you into doing any of
the above, just advising you what can be done.
In an example here, I have 2 master servers, and 2 media servers, which are
treated as SAN MEDIA servers, sharing a larger Tape Robotic Library and
backing up the disks through "fibre" channel cards.
The reason; To improve the backup performance for our larger systems that
holds TB's of Data. You may wish to just implement Media Server or servers
at your sites and backup to a tape drive or drives.
Wish you good luck Justin. But if you get time, I would strongly recommend
doing some research. Not only will this benefit you as the person
responsible for the infrastructure, but you also take part responsibility
for implementing the kit / software as you see fit :-)
Greetings
Simon Weaver
Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator
EADS Astrium
Tel: 02392-708598
Email: Simon.Weaver AT Astrium.eads DOT net
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Durrant [mailto:durrantj AT wwwebi DOT net]
Sent: 01 February 2006 11:18
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Assistance Required
Hi Simon
Thanks for the response.
> Well, bit of a tough question to answer, as there are SO many
> questions I would probably want to ask you, one of them being "Is
> Netbackup the
product
> for you" !?
I dont believe I have a choice in this as we already have this in place.
> How many client machines are you backing up?
Over 300 hundred boxes. Most of them are on site locally but there was
mention that perhaps we should be backing up our various remote sites.
However, our Windows admin has suggested that we could possibly use DFS for
this; so this may be the route we take on remote sites.
> Are they a variety of operating systems? (ie: Unix, NT, 2003)
We have a selection. We're only backing up servers (Solaris, RHEL and
Windows), a NetApp filer and our SAN. I'd like to be able to backup the SAN
data directly; it is currently being backed up via the machine that uses the
space but I'm sure that this is the wrong way to do it.
> Is Netbackup going to be the corporate backup product and part of your
business strategy?
Yes, almost certainly.
> In terms of what you backup, you may be able to find this out from the
> "Images on Media" report tool - most of the information about the
> clients and size of data on tape can come from the Reports applet.
Thankyou, I'll take a look at these reports.
> Netbackup is scalable, there is no doubt about that - In my own
> personal view, some of the add-on's appear to be very expensive (ie
> SQL license,
> Oracle) so you need to take costs into account.
Phew, that kinda answers part of the issue. Not sure about add-on's that
we'd require. I havent heard mention of costs yet so I wont be losing any
sleep over this.
> Not sure if I am being much help here ? :-(
Any help is more than I had to start with. Thanks muchly
Justin
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