On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, King5899 wrote:

>
> I have a new customer coming in that has 30 TB of SAN that they want to put 
> behind 2 Windows servers acting as a clustered NAS Gateway.(Not my idea). The 
> directory structure includes tens of millions of small images spread across 
> 10 of millions of directories. Currently they backup their windows servers at 
> a rate of about 25 GB an hour, however the data could pass over the fiber 
> network to the fiber tape drives. I am entertaining SAN snapshots, and 
> backing up the snapshots from the backup server, but not sure if that is the 
> best solution.
>
> How would I possibly back this up in a reasonable time?
Your best solution, look at Flash Backup if there are millions of files.
With 30TiB of data, that may present a problem of it in itself, do you 
have a fiber channel mesh that your tape drives have access to?

>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> MJK
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