+----- On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:20:28 EST, "Des Barden" writes: | | Could someone please advise what is a good solution for backing up a F760. | We are looking to have a day one usage of 600 megabytes useable, scalable | upto 2 terabyte system. | | We would prefer to use Veritas Netbackup as the Backup Manager software. | | The backup window is to backup within 24 hours for a full backup.
We use networker but the principle should be the same for NetBackup. We have a dedicated 100MB FD link and backup the filers with NFS. We have also tested backing up with CIFS and that worked equally well.
For 2TB you'll need roughly 25MB/s so obviously you'll need ether-channel, gigabit ethernet or OC12 ATM together with a veritable stack of tape drives, I think that you'll want to use local tape drives. If it's a cluster that your going to backup then the figures are halved making it more manageable.
Another possibility is to not attempt to backup everything at once. We have divided our 2 520's into bite-size virtual partitions and do a full backup on 1 vp plus a level 5 on 3 vp's every night, the rest are incremental and we repeat the full backup once a month. Spreading the load helps a lot but it isn't always possible.
/Michael