Re: Re. War stories: Restores 200GB ?

2002-03-18 Thread Remco Post
Maybe the best idee I heard untill now, If you're planning a major upgrade, switch on collocation on your storagepool first and then run a selective (full) backup of your system, this will bring the restore time down to the time it takes to mount about 8 tapes and read them (and switch

Re: Re. War stories: Restores/200GB ?

2002-03-17 Thread Daniel Sparrman
HiWhen reaching volumes over 200GB for a server, you need to do find ways to minimize the amount of data that has to be restored in case of a disaster.If this is a fileserver, the most efficent way to speed up the restore time of the whole server, would be to implement HSM.Normally, 40-60% of data

Re: Re. War stories: Restores 200GB ?

2002-03-17 Thread Seay, Paul
On the ESS the write cache is not optional. You must use it. That is where all the write performance comes from. It eliminates the RAID-5 Write penalty and basically changes the writes to RAID-3, no reads before write, when writing sequentially. Not sure what you mean by 2 write cycles.