One word....NDMP.  Forget about doing it in a reasonable amount of time using 
CIFS.

Also, define "reasonable time"?

--stuart

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of King5899
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:46 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to backup 30TB of data


I have a new customer coming in that has 30 TB of SAN that they want to put 
behind 2 Windows servers acting as a clustered NAS Gateway.(Not my idea). The 
directory structure includes tens of millions of small images spread across 10 
of millions of directories. Currently they backup their windows servers at a 
rate of about 25 GB an hour, however the data could pass over the fiber network 
to the fiber tape drives. I am entertaining SAN snapshots, and backing up the 
snapshots from the backup server, but not sure if that is the best solution.

How would I possibly back this up in a reasonable time?

Any help would be appreciated.

MJK

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