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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