You could also use NetBackups Snap Mirror to tape. You would need a NetApp
snap mirror license.
The Pros
It uses snapmirror and sends the data off to tape. It is a RAW volume backup
and is extremely fast - 10X in many cases.
It can be fully configured in NetBackup
The Cons
It backs up the
Good news is that with 7.01 coming out in a month or so will allow NBU to
multi-stream NDMP data to a single tape drive.
This will/may alleviate some of the performance issues many of you experience
each day. However I am not sure of any limitations of this feature patch may
have.
Chris
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Hello all,
I continue to find new vStorage API backup nuances for Netbackup 7 (most
recently discover vCenter crendentails are insufficient to backup lab
manager deployed VM's, you need to run as root on the ESX servers
themselves).
Now I've noticed that if you backup a client using ESX
John Ive been playing with vStorage quite a bit.
Regarding the restore to alternate location, Ive been able to restore
to an alternate location but with some issues (see my post here:
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/forums/virtual-machine-recovery-
issues).
Couple things to
Hello guys,
I'm running 6.5.3 and I'm planning an upgrade to NBU 7 and then later I also
plan a hardware-refresh (move from Win2k3 to Win2008 R2).
While checking the compatiblity list for NBU 6.X and 7, I noticed that , for a
master server, only Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition SP1 is supported
Hello,
We have upgraded the media server from 5.1 to 6.5.5
But its not done completely.
We ran the command: nbpushdata -add from the media server after the upgradation.
Do we need to do anything else too or we doing something wrong?
Please help.
Thanks and Regards
Pranav Batra
