[Veritas-bu] Backing up Windows 2000 clients

I know you probably don't want to hear this, but have you thought about
NetBackup Professional for the laptop/desktops?

Its not fully integrated with NBU...YET, but I'm told they're very close.

You may be hard pressed to keep track of the images that you backup to a
DISKSTU.  What I mean by that is if you need to do a single file restore,
its going to take a little more leg work to figure out which file system
backup you need to restore for your disk storage unit in order to restore
the single file.

OR

If you have the space, you could duplicate the images from your disk to a
tape storage unit, then delete the images from the disk storage and make the
tape the primary.

This could be easily scripted.

Hope this is helpful.

David

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DataStaff, Inc.
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Windows 2000 clients


Does anyone have any advice on the best way to backup about 50 Windows
2000 Desktop and Laptop clients with Netbackup DataCenter 3.4?

We currently have a DLT tape library with 6 DLT 7000 tape drives. Two of
the drives are connected to NDMP hosts, so only four drives are
available for Windows backups. The drives are used each night between
12:00 AM and 9:00 AM for performing Server Backups. Also they are used
all day Monday and part of Tuesday for duplicating tapes to be sent
offsite.

I'm thinking of backing up the Windows Clients to a Disk Storage Unit,
and then backing up the associated filesystem.

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