This should read: "the overall frame of disks is perhaps shared over
many servers".

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Mark.Donaldson at cexp.com
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To: Greg.Hindle at constellation.com; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Unix policy's


Why do you say that the EMC is mounted in many places?  While the
overall frame of disks is perhaps shared over many disks, usually disk
space is dedicated to specific servers.
 
The exception to this is if you're using clustered filesystems, an
uncommon option.  It's both expensive and not extremely useful so it's
pretty uncommon.  Probably the most common use of clustered filesystems
is on shared database filesystems, for clustered database products like
Oracle RAC.  If you've got that, you should be excluding those anyway
because file-level backups of open database files is usually a bad idea.
 
-M

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Greg
Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:32 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Unix policy's



Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 

Our master runs on UNIX but most of the servers we back up are window
based servers using the "all local drives" option. We have about 400
UNIX servers that we do back up and many of these have mounts points to
our EMC storage. What I would like to know is how others backup up UNIX
servers and cross mounts points without duplicating what data they back
up. Many of our UNIX servers only get certain file systems backed up.
Many of our UNIX servers mount to the same space on EMC. So If I create
a policy that crosses mount points I will be backing up the same date
many times over. We are in the process of condensing the number of
policy's we have and combining many into 1 or 2 generic policies for
easy management. But it is becoming clear that not all of our UNIX
servers can use the "all local drives" option and many cannot have cross
mount points. So I was curious how others handle this situation within
their environments. Any thoughts?

Thanks 
Greg 

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