Greetings,

We are taking the plunge into disk backup and are looking for advice on

We backup approx 40 Linux, NetWare, Mac and Windows boxes, a few MS-SQL servers,
and an Oracle DB, however the latter is just a file backup of the backup
performed by Oracle's tools. All told, about 6TB in a monthly cycle of one full
and incrementals. We currently use three tape pools: full, incremental, and DB
(for the databases), however, we are open to changing this if another
arrangement is preferable. Our plan is to backup to disk at night and then
script the cloning process during the day.

We will be backing up to one or more NFS-mounted file systems on another box
with a lot of disk (12 x 750GB SATA). I am looking for recommendations on
partitioning: what filesystem to use, how many partitions to create, whether or
not the partitions should correspond with media pools, with the goals of
performance and spreading the load over the 12 disks as evenly as practical.

Thanks!

ajs
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Tony Skalski
Systems Administrator
507-646-3227
ajs AT stolaf DOT edu
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