Has anyone found a "good" solution to backing up large filers?
Someone convinced me that this ndmp thing was the way to go and I bought into the whole BudTool scheme (since they're the only ones supporting ndmp). I have an issue with that too - only one vendor.
However, it's been nothing but a disaster and I'm looking for something far better. We've gotten the impression that no one at PDC has bothered to test BudTool with large filers with BreeceHill stackers (PDC and NetApp recommeneded these to us). There appears to be a general lack of interopibility. And finger pointing between Network Appliance and PDC.
Right now we have an issue that keeps rebooting our filers every few days.
Don't even talk about restoring data... as part of our general backup policy, we do periodic restores. I believe the wording from PDC was something to the effect that BudTool is a backup management software and not geared towards restores. Suffice it to say that we rarely have a successful restore.
I'm basically fishing for alternative backup solutions. We have three F540s with ~100GB disk and about 20 other boxes with ~50GB or so each, all code development and all needs to be backed up.
Any ideas? We're all pretty frustrated at the lack of a solid backup solution from Network Appliance. Hell, I'd go for something proprietary so long as it worked!
- mz
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Any ideas? We're all pretty frustrated at the lack of a solid backup solution from Network Appliance. Hell, I'd go for something proprietary so long as it worked!
This is _very_ far from perfect, but we got have a private 100 MB network with just the filer and a legato server on it. The filer gets mounted on the legato server, and gets backed up like any other file system.
If we mount it in several pieces (eg, /project1, /project2, /project3), we can back them up concurrently and it goes even faster.
Not great, but it works.
Amy
On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, matthew zeier wrote:
} Has anyone found a "good" solution to backing up large filers? } } Someone convinced me that this ndmp thing was the way to go and I bought } into the whole BudTool scheme (since they're the only ones supporting } ndmp). I have an issue with that too - only one vendor.
You might contact Workstation Solutions. they have a product called QuickRestore. It sounds pretty interesting. I can't vouch for this product as I 've only seen the glossies and talked to a sales rep (I'm considering evaling it...) goto http://www.worksta.com.
The current version doesn't suport NDMP, but they've verbally told me that it's coming soon... in the next rev. They have the NDMP logo on there page(s).
They're major selling point is on Restore of the data. They say they can start the actual restore of data w/in 180 seconds.
The one draw back (in some opinions) is that is does use a client agent of some kind, though the tape format is a 'fully POSIX compliant format'. . ---------------------------------------------------------------- David R. Van Sandt, dv@corp.earthlink.net, 626/296-5137 Earthlink Network, Lead System Administrator "It's Your Internet" ----------------------------------------------------------------
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