This probably isnt ideal for you or your situation but this is how i handled
this problem in my environment. I never tried using flashbackup for these
servers.
We have 2 Major File servers, 1 is 1.6 tb and has several million files on it
(emails, log files, spreadsheets - accounting file ser
Flashbackup is the ideal option to backup these many files. We use it and till
now no issues reported.
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:02:11 +0530 Shaheensn wrote
>Hi,
It would be extremely helpful if the expert minds in this forum could help me
with below concerns related to backing up data using Sy
Rusty and others have pointed out the best methods in tackling your issue.
There is another option which is new but it requires a Symantec 5xxx Appliance
or similar disk using PureDisk.
It is called Optimized Synthetic Backups.
NetBackup Admin Guide vol 1. (pg. 824)
http://www.symantec.com/busin
[mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Rusty Major
Sent: 28 September 2014 00:51
To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Ideal Netbackup solution for backing up millions of
files
Hi,
You could try to use some sort of zip utility to combine all the
Flash backup has been the traditional way solve this, as you are running
7.6.0.2 you can also use accelerator if you run the backup against a symantec
dedup store.
In this case, I don't think installing a SAN client would help, as the problem
lies in reading the files.
Regards
Michael
> Den
Hi,
You could try to use some sort of zip utility to combine all the files and
directory structure into a single file. This will still take up time and
resources on the system but it would make backups much quicker. There are
better ideas, though.
NetBackup has a relatively new feature called Acc
Hi,
It would be extremely helpful if the expert minds in this forum could help me
with below concerns related to backing up data using Symantec NetBackup.
Background
Our system has a folder containing millions of small files spread across 1000s
of sub folders running into more than 500GB that