I think your first step would be to put your master server and tape
library on the SAN.
Then you would need 1 SSO license and 1 SAN Media Server license.  You
may be able to upgrade your library with a Fibre to SCSI router so the
tape drives don't need to be upgraded to Fibre.

2TB in 12 hours ain't bad.  That works out to about 47MB/sec.    With
a beefy CPU and compressible data you might be able to triple that
speed.    The HP LTO3 drive maxes out around 160MB/sec COMPRESSED
(80MB/sec written on tape).   If you can't get the proper compression
or just want even faster backups, you may want to backup to 2 tape
drives simultaneously.   This would require another SSO license and
assumes that the disks can serve up data that fast to begin with.

Austin

On 5/16/06, Atif Munir <atif76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now this is the time we need to do something for our backups as the
> time to take the backup of 2TB is about 12 hours as its over the LAN
> and I am interested to shift it over the SAN bakcup.
> What we have is listed below.
> 1- L100 with 5 LTO3 Drives attached to the veritas netbackup server via SCSI.
> 2- Backup server is not connected to the SAN. its over the lan and all
> data travel's over the dedicated LAN.
> 3- Hosts are connected to the san via fiber and are there on the
> dedicated LAN for backup purposes.
>
>
> What I am thinking that we should have to plug a seperate hba on the
> hosts and on the backup server and put them on one zone on the switch.
> OR
> we have to connect the library directly to the san switch?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> atif
>
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