Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

2010-05-06 Thread przemolicc
Are you sure about that: ... not be able to stream data to a disk array If data from NBU policy goes as one stream and you direct them to particular arrays disks (each policy to different disks) it is sequential (not random !) IO pattern. In such case even SATA disks are able to cope with it

Re: [Veritas-bu] performance on windows cluster

2010-05-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Hi Kevin I do not want to be a downer on Clustering, as I quite like MS Clustering, but the reason why I would be looking at Clustering the Master is due to High Availability of that application. However, please bear in mind that if you have 1000+ jobs running while the Master Cluster fails

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

2010-05-06 Thread Travis Kelley
I agree with Martin here on them working in some cases. I have and EMC Clariion with 45 1TB SATA disks and I can tell you it screams. I routienly see over 600MB/S out of the array wjile destaging. Sure, I have a larger and potentially smarter array than some but to say they don't ever work is

[Veritas-bu] Error bptm(pid=5620) write error on media

2010-05-06 Thread shetty
Hi all, I'm Suhas, I'm getting the following error when my disk to tape backup is in progress only for 1 storage Error bptm(pid=5620) write error on media id NE3026, drive index 0, writing header block, 55 But when i re- initiate the backup the same media will be picked on which it had

Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU and Clustered MSCS fileserver, Flashbackup?

2010-05-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Spellacy, Sean sean.spell...@viha.cawrote: I was hoping to use flashbackup to be able to pull them but I read in the documentation that flashbackup is not supported on clusters. From the 6.5.6 release notes: (ET2003460) Support for FlashBackup in a Microsoft

[Veritas-bu] Large SAP backup problem

2010-05-06 Thread luciano prata
Hi, Weaver, Simon, i dont understand, you tell me to create one media server specifically for this client is it? I think itÂ’s a good idea, I have a free HBA in this P595, and create a media server on the same host as my client and link the HBA with my SAN network to the VTL, I think its work,

Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)

2010-05-06 Thread Shekel Tal
I think to make an informed decision you would need to look at the bigger picture. Your original goal was to increase your backup performance and shrink you backup window Disk can be great but don't expect your backup times to increase just because you are using it. Is your disk being provided

Re: [Veritas-bu] Large SAP backup problem

2010-05-06 Thread WEAVER, Simon (external)
Luciano My name is Simon Weaver (1st name Simon!) You dont have to do what I tell you :-) It was only a suggestion! I have quite a few SAN Media Servers, with SSO - connected to the same library over Fabric. I only suggested it for 2 reasons 1) It backs up itself 2) Faster over fabric than the