Hi Austin,

I had been using Sun Solaris/Sparc servers until 2006 when I started
doing disk-based backups and de-duplication.  Neither the OS nor
the hardware (a Sun V240) could handle the backup/deduplication load (The
performance was dismal).

I now have 4 active backup servers each of which handles 14 active backups
and 2 duplications concurrently with loads less than 5.  These servers
are the Sun X4200 (dual-core opteron cpus) with 2 emulex fiber hbas.
Each hba is connected to a 3TB Nexsan SATABoy disk array and 8
LTO drives (4 LTO4 and 4 LTO3) via Brocade Silkworm 3900 fiber switches.



On Wed, 9 Apr 2008 veritas-bu-request AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 16:30:53 -0400
> From: "Austin Murphy" <austin.murphy AT gmail DOT com>
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Linux Master Server
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> Does anyone have a reason *not* to use NetBackup on Linux as a
> master/media server?  I've heard that Linux makes a great media
> server, but how about a master?
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> My options are Solaris/SPARC and Linux/x86_64 and I was wondering if
> anyone had found a concrete reason why Linux was inferior.
>
> Thanks,
> Austin
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--Kathy

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