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Re: [Veritas-bu] Syncsort NSB vs Netbackup?

2011-09-30 09:56:16
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Syncsort NSB vs Netbackup?
From: Travis Kelley <rhatguy AT gmail DOT com>
To: David Stanaway <david AT stanaway DOT net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:56:07 -0400

This is not true (yet).  We've recently talked do DD engineering in addition to trying it ourselves and confirmed both ways that optimized synthetics aren't  currently  supported.

On Sep 30, 2011 3:28 AM, "David Stanaway" <david AT stanaway DOT net> wrote:
> When did this get announced?
>
> I have been bugging our EMC Backup rep about this, I would have figured
> they would have been all over giving me the news.
>
> On 9/30/2011 1:14 AM, smpt wrote:
>> Hello,
>> Just a hint.
>> If you will use NBU and DD with BOOST, the synthetic backups are instant. NO
>> reading and writing to device.
>> In fact this is a future of all OST devices.
>>
>> stefanos
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of dejohn61
>> Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:56 AM
>> To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Syncsort NSB vs Netbackup?
>>
>> Hi Ken,
>> Yes I would have to use there snap capabilities with the dedup so I believe
>> they consider that synthetic fulls. after the initial full data set. I am
>> pushing for a Data Domain solution the dedup ratio is much better, and to
>> answer your second question, That is one of my main arguments is getting rid
>> of media servers to let the clients do all the work in our environment is
>> really scary thought.
>> So out of the 2 responses I received, I am very comfortable staying with NBU
>> and a DD dedup solution.
>>
>> We also would have stuff we could not move over like AIX oracle and AIX Unix
>>
>> Thanks for your input and any other Syncsort info is more than welcome
>> Don
>>
>> Two questions for you:
>> 1) Do/Would you use synthetic fulls (Syncsort does incrementals
>> forever)?
>> 2) Do your clients have the horsepower to handle source side
>> deduplication?
>>
>> We could not move as there are some legacy systems they do
>> not fully support in our environment.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: veritas-bu-bounces< at> mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
>> bounces< at> mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of dejohn61
>> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:56 PM
>> To: VERITAS-BU< at> MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
>> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Syncsort NSB vs Netbackup?
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone has any information on Syncsort NSB? Pro's
>> and Con's, would anyone consider leaving Netbackup to go to Syncsort NSB
>> on NetApp in a large enterprise?
>>
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