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Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size

2008-04-01 09:58:22
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size
From: "WEAVER, Simon \(external\)" <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net>
To: "Ed Wilts" <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 14:35:08 +0100
Ed
I use Robocopy alot, but I feel that the product may have been ill-advised by someone who thought we needed the product, when clearly we have proven this is not the case.
 
Robocopy and Diskpart :-) works like a charm!


From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 1:22 PM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external)
Cc: Paul Keating; Dariusz.Klar AT sun DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:27 AM, WEAVER, Simon (external) <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net> wrote:

Personally, I am not a fan of Veritas Volume Manager, and I certainly cannot recommend it.

That's because you're a Windows guy and the product certainly doesn't function on Windows like it does on Unix.  If you're a Unix guy, you'll see the limitations of Windows and its lack of a volume manager very quickly.

My catalog is in a volume manager and yes, we've grown it.   We've bounced a lot of our storage around between SAN frames as well as expanded volumes.  On the other hand, my Windows admins do nothing but bitch and moan when they have to do the same thing.  Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, VMS - all move data nicely around.  Windows, well, just say no.

Robocopy is not an alternative to a volume manager :-)

   .../Ed


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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Paul Keating
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 5:19 PM
To: Dariusz.Klar AT Sun DOT COM; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup 6.5 index size

Build your catalog filesytem using a Logical Volume Manager, such as Veritas Volume Manager (Storage Foundations) on a SAN attached LUN. As your catalog grows you can grow both the LUN and the filesystem hot, without an outage.

Or, if you have availability of a recent Enterprise class array such as the HDS USP-V, you can build it on a DP (Dynamic provisioned) LUN (aka thin provisioning)

The array presents your server with a large fixed size LUN, even several terabytes, but only occupies as much disk space as needed, initially, then auto allocates disk as needed.

Personally, I'd just go the volume manager route.

Paul


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