2010/1/12 William Brown william.d.br...@gsk.com:
Don't confuse the confusing names Symantec uses!
A SAN Media Server backs up it's own disks (only) and sends the data over the
SAN to SAN-attached tape drives (commonly)
A normal Media Server (licence is double the list price) also send data
Wow ... backing up a TSM system with NBU. I hope you do a lot of testing.
TSM does a lot of stuff in the background. I'd make sure TSM is shutdown,
not just the data volumes and your backup includes everything that is TSM,
especially the database.
Actually we will only back up the data
We are about to set up a system with a NBU SAN Media Server to give
the system direct access to tape drives
due to high throughput requirements.
I have not been able to find any documentation on how to install and
set up this. Is it so that we should perform
an ordinary media server installation
It just depends on if you have a need to have the data only travel the
SAN or if it is ok to travel the LAN.
I have SAN media servers but do not have FT. Just depends on what you
want. But I know a number of people who thought SAN media server meant
by default that it backed up over the
