V5.0 of Netbackup - already released - handles filesystems/images that are
greatly larger.

For now, with my 1.5 & 2TB filesytems, I break them up with a multistream
backup and a filelist that looks like this:

/bigfilesystem/*

..this only works if the first-level subdirs of /bigfilesystem are
themselves less than a TB in total.  

-M


-----Original Message-----
From: Kent.J.Monthei AT gsk DOT com [mailto:Kent.J.Monthei AT gsk DOT com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:23 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup vs terabyte drives & filesystems



I recently came across this Veritas TechNote which mentions support for 2
terabyte files / 32 terabyte filesystems:
TechNote ID: 249916 - Addendum to the VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) 3.5
Release Notes for Solaris. New feature in VxVM 3.5 is 32-Terabyte volume
support, link: http://support.veritas.com/docs/249916 


We currently run NetBackup 4.5 FP3, which (we found out the hard way) has a
1 terabyte-per-stream limit. 

We installed an EMC SAN and several EVA SAN's last year, and now have
numerous multi-terabyte servers.  We had to enable multiple streams for
certain clients just to ensure NetBackup didn't keel over after pushing the
first terabyte.  Recently one group here started allocating individual
filesystems over 1 terabyte.  Just enabling multiple streams and using
ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES isn't going to cut it much longer. 

So, are any of the latest Veritas NetBackup releases going to be capable of
coping with the latest Veritas Volume Manager file/filesystem maxsizes soon?

-rsvp, thanks 

Kent Monthei 
GlaxoSmithKline