Not that I can think of, those operations would be happening after the
snapshotting took place. With Powersnap, it basically is going to split the
BCV or snapshot, mount it to the mount host, then either index it and unmount,
or backup from there to tape. The encryption would take place when the data
started being written to tape.
Same thing with snapimage I believe, you would using something like Replication
manager to split and mount it on the mount host. Then it would just call the
save command to backup that mount point, just a normal backup from that point.
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:49 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] recommendation to backup 1.5 million small files?
No worries.
Do you know if there are any restirctions using powersnap or snap image when
the data must be encrypted using the networker directive?
Sterba_Robert AT emc DOT com wrote:
Hmm I see the same thing. For some reason I didn't even catch the EVA part, I
know it supports IBM, EMC, and SUN.
Sorry about that. ;-)
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From: Lemons, Terry
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:02 AM
To: mark wragge; Sterba, Robert
Cc: EMC NetWorker discussion
Subject: RE: [Networker] recommendation to backup 1.5 million small files?
I'm looking at Powerlink, and I see documentation on the following PowerSnap
Modules:
- PowerSnap Module for EMC CLARiiON
- PowerSnap Module for EMC Symmetrix DMX
- PowerSnap Module for IBM FastT
- PowerSnap Module for NAS Devices
- PowerSnap Module for Oracle AT Edition
- PowerSnap Module for RecoverPoint
- PowerSnap Module for STK D Series
- PowerSnap Module for Sun StorEdge 6920
- PowerSnap Module for Sun StorEdge Availability Suite
FYI
tl
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] recommendation to backup 1.5 million small files?
So powersnap can be used with a HP EVA. I did not know this and thought that
powersnap was just for use with EMC disk.
I will price both options.
Rob Sterba wrote:
SnapImage I believe is a good option here, but in your case, powersnap would be
a great option here too. You could use it in one of two ways.
You could have it generate your snapshots for you on the EVA and then mount
them to the Networker server and index them. These indexes would be associated
with the client, not the mount host. This would allow you to perform "instant"
backups (creating a BCV) and maintain the advantage of having file level
indexes and recoveries of these files without the slow file level backups. In
terms of recovery, you could then rollback the entire BCV, or just recover
individual files from that BCV, without ever going to tape.
Of course you could also use this in combination with backup to tape or disk
also by sending all or one of these BCV's to tape, and of course, powersnap
would associate the indexes correctly with the client and not the mount host.
So when looking at the indexes for that client, you will have some backups that
are on the BCV and some that are traditional backups.
Just thought I'd elaborate, since I don't think a lot of people know about
Powersnap.
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Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 3:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] recommendation to backup 1.5 million small files?
The storage system is HP EVA. I will look at use of SnapImage to backup these
two disks.
The EVA has snapshot capability which will allow us to mount the snapshot onto
the backup server and backup the disks but we will still have the problem of a
long backup due to many files and also the backup is then associated with the
networker server index rather than client index.
Thanks for all the advice from everyone on this discussion.
lemons_terry AT emc DOT com wrote:
Hi Mark
What type of storage system does this server use to house those 1.5 million
files? Depending on your answer, NetWorker may already have a companion product
that will do very useful and clever things. I'm referring to the NetWorker
PowerSnap family of products. The manuals are on Powerlink
(http://powerlink.emc.com) at Home > Support > Technical Documentation and
Advisories > Software ~ J-O ~ Documentation > NetWorker Application and
PowerSnap Modules, if you'd like a dive into the details.
I know that others have already mentioned SnapImage, so thought I'd broaden the
discussion to include these other products.
Hope this helps!
tl
Terry Lemons
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
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Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:48 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] recommendation to backup 1.5 million small files?
Hi, what options does networker have to backup a server with lots of small
files. Each night the backup will be 1.5 million files on two drives on a
win2003 server. I know that with netbackup i could look at flashsnap backup. Is
there a competing module that works with networker?
Thanks
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