Author: netbackup-forum at backupcentral.com (dy018)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 23:22:08 -0700
Hi everyone, I'm new using VTL with netbackup. I was hoping anyone here already implemented such a setup in their current environment and hope share your general setup plan? I'm now planing for such
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Author: pkeating at bank-banque-canada.ca (Paul Keating)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:53:32 -0400
For starters, if you have 100 clients, you wouldn't create 100 drives. You don't want all of your backups running at once. But you could create 10 drives, or 20, or however many you want/need. You co
Author: blaine_robison at yahoo.com (Blaine Robison)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 08:04:41 -0700 (PDT)
I understand that VTL able to create multiple tape libraries and tape drives. Yes this is correct. There is a limit depending on the manufacturer. Common practice is to use vault. You can create a sc
NO....Don't use Vault to duplicate from VTL to physical tape!!! We tried this, and in NB 5.1 MP6, Vault is a HOG!! We were not able to keep the drives spinning fast enough using Vault. The best speed
Not sure if you've picked your VTL unit yet.. We're using the ADIC (now Quantum) Pathlight VX for our VTL. Mostly, it's sharing out virtual LTO3s to our four NetWare cluster servers (with some nifty
Good day to you all, Those of you who are thinking of using VTL's I would urge to re think that technology. There are so many issues, the main being you are still bound by SCSI rules. Another fact is
Author: backupicici at gmail.com (Veritas Netbackup)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:48:29 +0530
I have tried answering a few of your questions. Yes a VTL will look exactly like a robotic library. Robots and drives, but in abundance :) 2. In general, media Server do not share a tape media with o
Author: cpreston at glasshouse.com (Curtis Preston)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 01:58:01 -0400
Looks like it's my week to disagree with you, Stuart. (Sorry. I love ya' man!) saw >going to physical tape using vault was maybe 30MB/sec. Usually we got I've been able to get Vault to go MUCH faster
Author: cpreston at glasshouse.com (Curtis Preston)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 01:58:06 -0400
1. Does a Virtual Tape Library have robot arm in the master server GUI? Yes. 2. In general, media Server do not share a tape media with other media server, hence in the VTL contain images from differ
Author: cpreston at glasshouse.com (Curtis Preston)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 01:58:19 -0400
Good day to you! Can't say I agree with you there. I hate responding in the negative, but your message was so strongly worded against VTLs, I felt I just had to respond. You're bound by SCSI rules a
Author: cpreston at glasshouse.com (Curtis Preston)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 02:07:17 -0400
images find them. But if your Vault is setup right, you just run it again and it figures out what else to dupe and dupes it. _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Ver
Warning, long ramble follows... I'll take the middle ground. The existence of a VTL appliance is IMO due to the fact that backup utilities (from now on limited to NBU) are not really stellar at using
The way that CommVault does it with Gridstor is that each media server shares an index cache (the equivalent of NBU's catalog/databases) via NFS or CIFS. I call it a "poor man's clustered filesystem
Author: cpreston at glasshouse.com (Curtis Preston)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:52:40 -0400
any NBU's index is already centralized at the master (and therefore shared amongst media server), so media servers can take over for other media servers any time. be resiliency! This is where CommVau
Really? They will automatically failover/load balance? Something new in 6.x? How are the media servers logically grouped? Is this now a function of STU groups? (pssst! I'm the guy who asked you the q
OK....so now I have to disagree with Curtis on his disagreement.... We tried using Vault with both preserving of Multiplexing and doing de-multiplexing on the vault copies. In both cases, we did not
Author: cpreston at glasshouse.com (Curtis Preston)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:42:47 -0400
If you use a storage unit group (available for a few versions now) or "any available," any available media server can backup any other media server's client, or at least any clients that are configur
Author: cpreston at glasshouse.com (Curtis Preston)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 18:56:22 -0400
Nothing speaks like experience. Your experience was that Vault didn't work for you, and I'm glad to see you tried mpx and not. I completely agree about the big files/small files thing. I also know th
Hi Curtis, but your message was so strongly worded against VTLs, I felt I just had to respond. I have nothing against VTL's or their manufacturers. what you mean here. The VTL follows the SCSI rules