On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:14 am, Timothy Arnold wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks for this. All very useful information.
>
> We currently run Netbackup 3.4 and it appears you cannot write to disk -
> does this mean I will have to upgrade to 4.5?

In 3.4 you can create storage groups which are comprised of disk storage 
versus tape storage. 

>
> Following your suggestion, it does sound sensible if I put the tape unit
> with the disk drives in the other building and backup to tape after all the
> backups have been completed. This would give the added bonus that I could
> backup the disks during the day as it will not affect performance of the
> network.
>
> Now all I need to do is write the proposal :)

I just got a quote for a 4TB RAID capable FC disk array for ~$8800USD (no, I'm 
not a salesman ; ) ). I'm at home right now, if you're interested in more 
info, email me at ssesar AT mitre DOT org, the quote is in my office.

>
> Thanks again!
>
> Timothy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Stoffel [mailto:stoffel AT lucent DOT com]
> Sent: 04 September 2003 15:10
> To: Timothy Arnold
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Backup to disk.
>
>
>
> Timothy> I am hoping someone could give me some information regarding
> Timothy> backup to disk.
>
> It works just fine, staging to disk, except for NDMP backups.
>
> Timothy> I would like to perform backups to disk to another building
> Timothy> (connected via 1gbps fibre) Monday thru Thursday and then
> Timothy> perform a full backup on a Friday to tape. Does anyone know if
> Timothy> Veritas Netbackup can write to disk?
>
> Why don't you just stage *all* your backups to disk, and then write to tape
> when you're done?
>
> Timothy> Does anyone recommend any cheap NAS storage for this possible
> Timothy> project? Is it worth doing?
>
> I'd probably just put a media server in a remote building which holds the
> disk drives locally.  We're using Zzyzx right now, though we've found that
> DMP with VxVM doesn't work out of the box.  Cheap box, 16 x 200gb drives,
> dual fibre channel, etc.
>
> I think you can even get it with a fibre interface for longer distances, so
> you could even put the device in the far building if your have the spare
> fibre, while keeping the tape drive and server in another building.
>
> Stage to disks all the time, then Vault (or do it manually, not sure
> how) the disk images to tape when you're ready.
>
> John
>    John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies
>        stoffel AT lucent DOT com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548
>
>
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