Folks:
Networker 7.6.1; Windows 2008 x64
We have a 3 node Networker Backup configuration -- two larger nodes will
have 10 Gbps, while third node will only have 1 Gbps (teamed);
Two of these larger storage nodes will not only have 10 Gbps - but will
have access to larger and faster NAS-Share devices/volumes for storage;
while the smaller storage node will access smaller/slower NSA-
device/volume; Each volume will be in its own pool for DeDupe (on NAS
device) reasons;
We would like to direct our larger clients (servers with big file-shares,
Exchange) to these larger Storage nodes;
We will have 3 groups (minimum) - respectively going to 3 media-pools; We
will mount the correct device/volume on correct Node (larger Share on
larger Node etc); Of course, we will assigng larger clients to larger
group/pool; Is this sufficient for the larger clients to be
Directed/Picked-up/Backed-up-directly by larger node, or do we have to
specify in client's "Storage Node" property for each of these clients ?
Also, for Weekend Full backups - we will also have "Clones" to tape - we
would like to preserve similar relashionship (ie., larger nodes doing
clones to faster tapes - directly by themselves, rather than going thru
other nodes tapes).
What we do NOT want to happen is - a big client picked up by smaller
storage node, and direct the backup to larger-node where the Pool/Share is
mounted; First of all its duplicate work, and secondly - smaller-node
becomes bottleneck; So, we want to eliminate smaller-node's role in
backing up bigger clients going directly to bigger storage-nodes; Besides
multi-node hopping backup is redundant;
We expect to have about 60 virtual clients, or about 40 physical clients
to be backed up for about - 20+ TB on fulls, may be about 1-2 TB on
incrementals;
Your suggestitons are well appreciated,
Thanks
Srii
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