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[Veritas-bu] designing a separate backup network.

2002-04-02 11:42:15
Subject: [Veritas-bu] designing a separate backup network.
From: morms AT es DOT com (morms AT es DOT com)
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 09:42:15 -0700
One thing that immediately jumps out at me is.....
If you have a SAN,  why would you want to send your backups over the network?  
Why not implement SSO and keep your backups off the network all together?

-Melinda

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Brown [mailto:dbrown AT gfs DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:00 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] designing a separate backup network.


I'm not really sure how to even ask this question, but I'll give it a try 
anyway.

Our management had a meeting yesterday and after it was all said and done, they 
had a few questions for me regarding moving all of our Veritas Netbackup 
functions off the main LAN and utilizing a separate and dedicated backup 
network. (BAN?)

My understanding is that everything will have its own dedicated network cards, 
fibre cabling and server connections.  I don't think that would be a problem, 
but they asked a few questions about going through a router off of the SAN and 
will the backups still run correctly through the router and what kind of 
performance issues might we deal with.

I honestly don't really know what it is they are asking or to answer these 
concerns so I was hoping this little bit of information I have might jog 
someone on here to make sense and give me some feedback to pass on to 
management about a strategy or if it is even a good idea.

Sorry that it is rather vague, but I'm just in the initial stages here myself 
and was hoping for some outside input.

Thanks all,
Dave



David Brown

Open Systems Administrator
email: dbrown AT gfs DOT com
phone:  616-530-7000 ext. 6155
pager:  1-888-614-6762

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