Hmm,
I would say that file locking has improved, if you want to test that setup a
mail server on the NFS mount and generate a lot of emails, or database of
some type to test it.
Where I would be concerned would be in the middle of the back to have a
network problem and end up trashing the backup database. I would really be
hard pressed to use NFS to store the backup database. If you plan on doing
it make sure you are forcing sync on your NFS mount also as NFS v2 usually
defaults to async writes. Which could cause a consistency problem if you
suffer a network outage. Also another concern would be that your backup
would probably fail if you hang the NFS mount as most *NIX boxes hate when
you lose network connectivity across an active NFS mount.
- John
-----Original Message-----
From: Manny Kaiser [mailto:mkaiser@mmcnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 3:28 AM
To: Jon Walton
Cc: toasters@mathworks. com
Subject: RE: Veritas Netbackup Database
I was under the distinct impression that file locking in NFS in today's
operating systems is considerably more reliable then it was years ago. I
have never encountered a problem with any application running on an NFS
mounted file system. I am under the impression that the quote below is
something that was copied out of earlier versions of the manual and never
reviewed again.
When using NFS you might suffer a performance penalty if your systems are
not correctly configured.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters(a)mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On
Behalf Of Jon Walton
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:31 PM
To: Jeff Kennedy
Cc: toasters@mathworks. com
Subject: RE: Veritas Netbackup Database
Now that I look, the 3.4 DataCenter install guide states:
"Because the product uses file locking, VERITAS recommends that you not
install NetBackup in an NFS mounted directory. File locking in NFS
mounted files systems can be unreliable"
I mentally took this to mean "not supported". Sorry if my previous
email was misleading.
Regards,
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy@amcc.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:18 AM
To: Jon Walton
Cc: toasters@mathworks. com
Subject: Re: Veritas Netbackup Database
OK, I did some checking again. Veritas does officially support putting
/usr/openv onto an NFS file system. However, they say that performance
does suffer due to the large write streams.
So, if performance is not an issue then it is a very nice solution.
Also, db backups do not yet support disk storage unit backups.
Supposedly in 4.5 they will for just this reason.
~JK
Jon Walton wrote:
>
> I believe they do not support this due the fact that operations on the
> database files involve file locking. That is what is remember
reading
> in the Unix Admin Guide.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy@amcc.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 10:39 AM
> To: Manny Kaiser
> Cc: toasters@mathworks. com
> Subject: Re: Veritas Netbackup Database
>
> Got word from Vertias that putting the /usr/openv filesystem itself on
> NFS was NOT supported. However, you could backup the database to a
NFS
> disk without issue....
>
> ~JK
>
> > Manny Kaiser wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone placed the Veritas Netbackup database on an NFS mounted
> > file system?
> > More specifically on a netapp?
> > I was just told by Veritas that they do not recommend doing this
> > because NFS is unreliable.
> > Any feedback would be helpful.
> >
> >
>
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> =====================
> Jeff Kennedy
> Unix Administrator
> AMCC
> jlkennedy(a)amcc.com
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