My problem seems to be with the backup part of this. The database portion of the backup is successful, however the GRT part fails with a status 1 (9/14/2011 12:53:52 PM - Error bpbrm(pid=4380) from client dag1: ERR - Unable to obtain image list. Confirm this client has access to images on server 'ql1nbu1' for client 'dag1'). If fails using both a openstorage storage unit and a basic storage unit.

 

 

We have no issues with GRT Sharepoint restores from OST (At least on 6.5.4 and 7.0.1 with DataDomain OST). What doesn't work is SLP or duplication.  You will want to have non GRT backups as well if you want optimized offsite duplicates or tape copies.  I didn't bother with exchange GRT since if we have to back it up twice, we have insufficient maint window for exchange maintenance tasks.

Symantec, please give NBU GRT and SLP some interoperability, also while at it, fix the Synthetic Full and SLP interoperability.

On 9/8/2011 8:38 AM, Lightner, Jeff wrote:

We were advised that no deduplication appliance works with GRT restores so even if the backup appeared to work you wouldn’t be able to restore owing to the fact that the data is deduplicated so isn’t really browseable for restores.   We didn’t try the basic storage unit on DD or Quantum DXi – we moved to SAN storage presented to our master and made a storage unit for that.

 

We still had issues with GRT restores afterwards.   We had recently migrated to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2003 and apparently there is a known issue at Symantec on converted data – they sent us a binary fix to resolve that issue.   We never went back to try DD or DXi after that mainly because the Exchange admin was sick of dealing with it. 

 

This was all in NBU 7.1.

 

 

 

 

I’m trying to do a exchange 2010 GRT backup to a Data Domain appliance. We have data domain appliances that we backup to. Symantec is telling me that Open Storage (data domain) storage units are not supported with GRT. I tried backing up to a basic storage unit on the data domain and still can’t get it working. Has anyone had any experience getting GRT working with Data Domain?

 

Thanks

 

Don Klebba

Quicken Loans Inc.

Centrailized Storage Engineer

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