Re: [Veritas-bu] New Environment & Design Specifications

Although your environment is significantly larger than ours, if I was in a position where I could setup a backup environment from scratch I would seriously consider if I really wanted to invest any more money in tape. We were writing all of our data to LTO2’s 2 years ago and since then we have got rid of tape completely, backing up all of our data using 2 appliances from Data Domain which then replicate (and deduplicate) all that data to 2 more like boxes at our DR site. Removing tape from the equation has significantly shrunk our backup windows and reduced our RTO’s and RPO’s.

I understand that disk based backup isn’t for everyone but now that NBU 6.5 has introduced it’s OST option, it’s even easier to manage replication through the NBU interface. You could also think about utilizing your existing tape infrastructure for offsite tape copy once the data is duplicated at your DR site.

Mark Glazerman

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Subject: [Veritas-bu] New Environment & Design Specifications

All,

I have a question I would like to pose because I respect the vast amount of knowledge

associated with this forum. We are creating a new backup environment due to some changes

and needs.

Currently we will be backing up about 40 terabytes of data with a foreseen growth of 30-35% of data annually.

Data being backed up includes, Windows File systems, Unix File systems, Exchange, Oracle and SQL.

Having a Production site and a DR site using present day Best practices and current available hardware

what strategy would you use to set this up? This is even considering purchasing a new library and using LTO4 drives.

The backup system will have a dedicated connection. We currently have 8 HP prolient servers as our media servers

which may stay.

We have some thoughts as to how and what we will do including using vtl's and replication for the catalog

but since this forum has so many experienced people I want to get some other professional opinions.

If you could set up (from scratch) a Production backup site and DR site based on those data numbers which hardware and strategy

would you use considering future growth?

thanks

-Jackson

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