Greetings, We are taking the plunge into disk backup and are looking for advice on some initial setup options. We have a single Networker 7.2.1 server on RH9 (to be updated to the latest 7.2.x before
Author: Siobhán Ellis <siobhanellis AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:29:24 +1100
So, you are going to backup systems across the network to a network mounted disk farm. Therein lies a problem! Then you are going to clone (not stage?) to tape by pulling the data across the network
Author: Adrian Saul <asaul AT HOME-BOX.ODS DOT ORG>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:18:45 +1100
If you are using RAID-3 make sure you have only a single stream reading from the device - otherwise you will kill the performance. For a reason no-one can find documented, we have multiple 2Tb Clarii
Thanks for the feedback. Then you are going to clone (not stage?) to tape by pulling the data across the network again? The networker server is here in our data center, and the disk farm is at an off
Author: Siobhán Ellis <siobhanellis AT HOTMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:19:32 +1100
So I would suggest trying to use iSCSI rather than NFS. Better performance. You can use staging from the command line as well. But, yes, if you keep on disk, you should clone to another backup device
Author: Preston de Guise <enterprise.backup AT GMAIL DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:28:29 +1100
The 5400RPM ATA CLARiiON disks/LUNs offered considerably lower performance than desired for disk backups, and every site I saw experienced similar problems. It would seem however that the more recent
Author: Albert Eddie Contractor AFRPA CIO/IT <Eddie.Albert AT AFRPA.PENTAGON.AF DOT MIL>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:08:45 -0500
The 7200rpm Sata III drives are well over 300% faster than the older 5400rpm ata drives. If budgeting is an issue break the drives up into smaller drive arrays and replace them on budget plan... You