"Eyal Traitel" eyal.traitel@motorola.com writes:

Are there any plans / ideas from Veritas on improving backup/restore times of filers ?

In this case the issue is primarily the fact that Netapp continues to use dump, which is not the speediest way to recover files. (Being that it has to search the entire tape(s) to get even a single file.)

Of course, Veritas has plenty of it's own problems (restore times being only one of them) -- don't get me started.

It seems that the tape/backup s/w is not keeping up well with the filers' huge sizes ?

No question. I've been continually making noises at Netapp to improve the way they do backups, but haven't heard of any movement.

What is the best configuration that can give us best performance ?

Well, you could consider using legato and the netapp clientpak, though that requires you to do backups over the network, which is really sub-optimal. Given the current state of affairs at Legato Corporate, who knows what's going to happen in the future with the product.

Restores should be dramatically faster though.

I think ultimately, right now, the only thing you can do is use faster tape drives and/or smaller volumes, neither of which is really good solution.

Darrell