Yes it is but it’s also spread over
trays so I’m happy to trust it.
Not sure if my last post got through but
the catalogue backup goes over fibre to our DR site onto another tape library.
DR file is replicated over as well and is
also emailed to my private mail account. I believe I have most of the bases covered.
From:
WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 2:59
PM
To: Dominik Pietrzykowski; Jeff
Lightner; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Best
Practice: Location of the NetBackup Catalog
Dom
Is your Catalog on a SAN where your
company production Data is also stored?
From:
Dominik Pietrzykowski [mailto:dominik_pietrzykowski AT toll.com DOT au]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:12
AM
To: WEAVER, Simon (external); Jeff
Lightner; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Best
Practice: Location of the NetBackup Catalog
Simon,
Ours is on a fibre attached SAN and we
have no issues with it. I run reports all the time, some of the big ones take
about 5min (500GB catalogue at the moment and growing rapidly).
We’re lucky enough to have a SUN SAN
instructor that looks after ours. We let him loose every now and then to do
courses but most of the time he works for us.
I also know of another site which has a
1TB (approx) catalogue and they have no issues either, as far as I know.
Dom
From:
WEAVER, Simon (external) [mailto:simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 May 2008 11:02
PM
To: Jeff Lightner;
veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Best
Practice: Location of the NetBackup Catalog
Jeff
Thanks for reply. Like
you, not a fan of "eggs in one basket", and in a SAN world, you are
not always going to get away with this. We do replicate data between sans, and
from a H/W view, they behave and work fine.
All I wanted to do was
enquire if people are using locally stored "storage" for the Master
Server catalog or using "SAN" based fibre storage.
Windows does not care
whether the drive is local or SAN. Its a drive, end of story. NetBackup does
not care. Again, its a drive, it knows about it, and providing it knows the
drive letter and path structure, it can be used to store the catalog and
recover back to it.
Like I mentioned to
Jonathan, its just another "extra" piece of kit between the Master
Server binary files and the catalog. From a DR point, if there was a total loss
of a computer room, total loss of SAN, or a destruction, then I would find that
placing the catalog on a SAN could be a risk, against the storage of the
catalog onto locally stored disks on the Server. Again, this is a "worse
case poorly planned" scenario.But it could happen. I could die
tomorrow.... who knows !
And as a precaution, I
replicate the data to a SAN disk, and swap catalog tapes. So the recovery is
not a problem. But I was just looking for peoples views on whether the location
of SAN was acceptable, and from your view, your happy.
I do manage a large SAN
environment, and very happy about it. But I have been happy using the catalog
on locally stored drives, RAID5+ hot spare.
So I think for now, I
will keep the setup "as is" for the time being.
Many thanks for your
opinion.
Simon