Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU and Clustered MSCS fileserver, Flashbackup?

I asked this question a while back and someone responded that it does work. You need to create a small lun and use NTFS mapping to map folders under that shard for the actual huge luns you want to back up. Unfortunately I haven't had time to test this. Might want to look in the archives.

-Jonathan

From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Spellacy, Sean
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:14 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NBU and Clustered MSCS fileserver, Flashbackup?

Good day all

I hope you might be able to provide some suggestions to my problem.

I have recently added to my job list a Fileserver cluster made up of four win2k3r2 machines with roughly 5TB of data on them, millions of files.

As expected this takes a relative eternity to backup.

I was hoping to use flashbackup to be able to pull them but I read in the documentation that flashbackup is not supported on clusters.

Is this true? This does not work or this is not supported? Is anyone using flashbackup on win clusters?

So far I have broken these jobs down into multiple streams and that has bought me some ground, but I suspect the real issue here is the millions of files being parsed. I have also balanced to jobs across two media servers.

Does anyone have any insights or opinions as to how I may be able to speed up these jobs.

Thanks in advance

SSS

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