Vishy,
I am backing up the toasters through nfs mounts on the OpenVision Netbackup server.
The server is a Sun Ultra2 running Solaris 2.5.1. This means that nfs is multi-threaded and won't block if a mount hangs. It also means that the pathname to the mounted directory is no longer a link to /tmp_mnt/... which means it can be used without worrying about running a prebackup script to mount the directory and then backing up through /tmp_mnt.
The toasters are fddi attached as is the backup server. The drives I use are DLT7000 drives and they are in an STK9710 tape library. Each tape holds 35GB native and the STK can hold 560 tapes.
Our NFAS-1300 and NFAS-1400 toasters backup at about 2.6GB/hour and the F330 toasters at about 4.3GB/hour.
OpenVision is working on a toaster client using the NDMP API developed by NAC and Budtool but I don't know when it will be available. I hope sooner than later.
regards, Steve Gremban gremban@ti.com
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From gplkrshv@cig.mot.com Tue Apr 1 07:47:08 1997
From: Vishy Gopalakrishnan gplkrshv@cig.mot.com Subject: Re: How do *you* manage snapshots? To: gremban@msp.sc.ti.com (Steve Gremban) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 07:45:29 -0600 (CST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Steve,
Could you describe your NetApp-OpenVision setup ? Our site has 3 F330s which we have to start using NetBackup on (we currently do an nfs mount and use some home grown scripts). What kind of performance (transfer rates) have you been getting ? Are you using DLT drives/jukeboxes ? Has OpenVision mentioned anything about NetApp-native NetBackup clients ?
Any pinters appreciated.
Thanks
Vishy