There is a Win2K version of rsync. Our Windows Infrastructure group uses 
another product to accomplish what rsync does, although the name escapes me 
at the moment.

At any rate, I agree that your frac T pipes are not sufficient to backup 100G 
in a reasonable amount of time.

--Steve

On Monday 22 September 2003 07:05 am, Hart, Charles wrote:
> Thank you, for the input.  Should have mentioned they are all Win2K boxes,
> so no rsync.  The data lines to bring back the 100GB are 128-256K Frames.
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven L. Sesar [mailto:ssesar AT rcn DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:27 PM
> To: Hart, Charles; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Cc: Olson, Bradley; Lloyd, Jim
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Site Backups
>
>
> You don't say what OS(s) you need to replicate/backup. I'm going to speak
> from a UNIX perspective, since I'm a UNIX engineer.
>
> On a per site basis:
>
> Set up a box or boxes, which can accomodate enough disk space to meet your
> data storage needs. We'll call them, 'replication servers'.
>
> On these replication servers, I would concatenate some disks to make one
> large partition, let's call it, /DR. Underneath /DR, I would have
> directories for each server that I was backing up.
>
> Set up rsync jobs on your production machines to synchronize them over to
> your replication servers. Run them from cron periodically. Maybe use 'tar'
> to handle your boot disks and rsync to handle application data.
>
> Consider how you would handle any application that should be shut down
> prior to running rsync, ie, database.
>
> What this solution doesn't take into consideration is retaining data for
> more than a 24 hour period.
>
> What you gain is:
>
> - the ability to bring back a machine or parts of a machine, pretty quickly
> - not much in terms of $$$
> - easy to maintain
> - DR testing is easy
>
>
> HTH,
>
> --Steve
>
> On Sunday 21 September 2003 09:22 am, Hart, Charles wrote:
> > We are in a situation where we have to provide a backup solution for our
> > Asia/PAC locations.  Essentially there will be one larger central; site
> > so to speak then multiple (10-30) sites with 100-200GB per location.  We
> > have looked at Veritas Netbackup, but fulls over 61-256K lines would be
> > impossible, so Veritas's solutions is Volume Replicator?  Great idea, but
> > @ 64-128K lines the first full sync would take approx 4000 hours.
> >
> > We also have looked at many replication products, but all lacking a
> > "Global Management" feature, other than EMC's On course but that's quite
> > a pricey solution.  While we manage the same remote backups in the US
> > using Tivoli Storage manager, we are being told the Veritas is our
> > strategic direction regardless of technical limitations.
> >
> > If anyone could offer what their current solution is that would be great.
> > Single Local tape drives / small tabletop libraries and NBU installs are
> > not an option for the sake of cost and lack of tape management.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!!!!
> >
> > Charles Hart
> >
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