[Veritas-bu] Large catalog issues

2009-03-09 Thread shred625
One of the reasons I want to consolidate the backup environments is to centralize backups. I have one environment that has about 30 servers and the other that has around 200. The biggest reason that we have the large ammount of images is the breaking up the servers into smaller streams to try

[Veritas-bu] Large catalog issues

2009-03-06 Thread shred625
I know Symantec does not recommend a catalog to be larger than 500GB. I am really trying to centralize my backup environment and make things a lot more administratively friendly. I basically have 2 backup environments right now my main one having a catalog of 660GB and a smaller one with a

[Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-03-02 Thread shred625
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of shred625 Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:32 AM To: VERITAS-BU at mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies I had a vision and it didnt turn out exactly how I intended it. (NBU 5.1

[Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-25 Thread shred625
I had a vision and it didn’t turn out exactly how I intended it. (NBU 5.1 MP5upgrading soon Windows centric environment) I have the need to write certain data to only specific tapes. Those tapes are designated by a two digit code at the front of the tape. I have policies that I need to write

[Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-25 Thread shred625
I have 72 drives spread across 12 libraries (dont ask I inherited it) but these jobs are to big to just allow a couple drives to them. I would still need to be able to use these drives for other jobs as we have a very tight window to obtain our full backups. I have actually thought about

[Veritas-bu] Encryption - LTO-4 or Media Server

2008-12-11 Thread shred625
I have had the pitfalls of using MSEO and I can tell you that it is a bad idea for LTO4 drive. The impact on backups was the standard 15-20% and that was something I could easily deal with. The problem stemmed from the restore side. I was seeing restores move to a crawl. To give you some kind