[Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB

2012-04-11 Thread Simon Weaver
All I am hoping you can help Im not too familiar with Linux, but we have a RedHat Box, that is a VM Guest on an ESX Host, that has RDM's totalling 14TB The backups are done over the LAN - Painfully slow as you can imagine. Im wondering what options I have in terms of trying to improve

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2012-04-11 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hi, Issue found for this one, F/W needs to be 1432 and not 1395 (current) for LTO-5 (I knew this but did not do this upgrade). Getting this fixed, then need to figure out the encryption issue. Justin. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Steve Quan sk...@hotmail.com wrote: Any indications from

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB

2012-04-11 Thread stefanos
Hello Simon, Check if the DRMs are in virtual compatibility. If they are, you can use snapshots. Check the compatibility and VMware manuals. If not, you can use the storage snapshot to create a snapshot and mount it to a media server. You have to be sour that the application is backup aware

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB

2012-04-11 Thread Simon Weaver
Hi They are Physical Mode ! Storage Snapshot - Can you explain please? From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu on behalf of stefanos Sent: Wed 11/04/2012 14:53 To: Simon Weaver; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help -

Re: [Veritas-bu] Advice Help - Linux Server 14TB

2012-04-11 Thread JCrowe
I would look at synthetics ... not quite as large as you, but I backup around 8TBs on one linux (RHEL 4) server over the weekend (every weekend) and it completes in well under 24 hours. (About 16-20 hours from memory) The very first backup has to be a full, but once that is out of the way,

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2012-04-11 Thread Steve Quan
It will be interesting to see how many sites here are using LTO5 drives, and what their experience has been so far. With the greater throughput, are you using morepowerful media servers ? Is there a way of using LTFS with NBU ? /Steve