I must be missing something... I don't understand why you would want to
install a SAN media server but not configure it to send data over the SAN.
What are the benefits of backing up client X via a SAN media server, but
sending data over the LAN, versus backing up client X through a traditional
master/media server where the same data goes over the same LAN?  I thought
the whole point of a SAN media server was to get the data off of the LAN and
onto the higher-throughput SAN...

Neil

On 1/12/10 8:40 AM, "judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com"
<judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com> wrote:

> It just depends on if you have a "need" to have the data only travel the
> SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN.
> 
> I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you
> want.  But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant
> by default that it backed up over the SAN.
> 
> -----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 William
> Brown
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 10:27 AM
> To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
> 
> Actually if you think about it a SAN Media Server is no use as an FT
> Media Server - as it cannot backup other clients.  Strangely it could
> restore them as SAN Media Servers are allowed to do alternate client
> restores...just not backups.
> 
> William D L Brown
> 
> 
> -----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
> judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com
> Sent: 12 January 2010 15:25
> To: thomas.espe AT gmail DOT com; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
> 
> It acts much like a normal media server and you just do that, you just
> have to get the license installed to allow it to be a SAN Media server.
> 
> As such it can only back itself up.
> 
> If you have direct attached drives you issue.
> If you have a library - you can have some drives just used by that
> server (but if those drives fail it cannot use any of the other drives
> in the library)  If you want your normal media server and your SAN media
> server to use any drives in the library you will need to get an SSO
> license so they can all share the same drives.
> 
> Not that setting up a SAN media server does not make it backup over the
> san... if you want that you will have to set up the Fibre Transport -
> you will need to look more into that as it only works with specific
> hardware.
> 
> 
> -----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 Thomas
> Hemmingby Espe
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:28 AM
> To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup SAN Media Server
> 
> We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give
> the system direct access to tape drives
> due to high throughput requirements.
> 
> I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and
> set up this. Is it so that we should perform
> an ordinary media server installation and configuration? Is it only
> the license that is different?
> 
> Sincerely

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