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

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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@amcc.com