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Re: [Veritas-bu] How to backup 30TB of data

2007-09-26 12:46:31
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to backup 30TB of data
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com>
To: "Martin, Jonathan" <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:22:16 -0400 (EDT)
Wow, is your NDMP implementation broken or highly utilized?  I see ~26-30 
MiB/s regularly with NDMP per stream/volume.

Justin.

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Martin, Jonathan wrote:

> Yes, but verify speeds before you buy.  I've got 3TB of NDMP Backups
> running at 6MB/sec.  It takes FOREVER.  We're currently backing up the
> data via NFS shares at 20MB/sec until Sun / StorageTek can get their NAS
> NDMP implementation fixed.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Liddle,
> Stuart
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:34 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] How to backup 30TB of data
>
> One word....NDMP.  Forget about doing it in a reasonable amount of time
> using CIFS.
>
> Also, define "reasonable time"?
>
> --stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> King5899
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:46 PM
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] How to backup 30TB of data
>
>
> 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?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> MJK
>
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