[Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
I'm wondering if anyone has observed strange behavior like this with regard to media server dedupe pools and associated replication and restores. Here's our scenario... We have 2 media server dedupe pools setup. One hangs off a local media server. The other hangs off a media server at

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread stefanos
@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ?? I'm wondering if anyone has observed strange behavior like this with regard to media server dedupe pools and associated replication and restores. Here's our scenario. We have 2 media

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ?? Typical, The DR media server is trying to read the primary image from the primary storage server are send it back to the primary client. One way to resolve this is to use the media host override option. Another

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Kendall, Scott
...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Glazerman Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:50 AM To: stefanos; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools / replication / restores ?? Stefanos, We understand that the typical behavior or NBU

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ?? It's by design. OST will try to use the least busy media server with credentials. Media Host Override is one way to get around the behavior and get it to do what you want. http

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
Here's some info explaining the behavior: http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/how-media-server-load-balancing-affects-restores-openstorage We use the USE_BACKUP_MEDIA_SERVER_FOR_RESTORE option in our environment as we have multiple MSDPs at locations across the country. I don't want a media

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Mark Glazerman
to -Original Message- From: jack.fores...@mylan.com [mailto:jack.fores...@mylan.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:22 PM To: Mark Glazerman Cc: Kendall, Scott; VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU; veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server

Re: [Veritas-bu] Issues with media server dedupe pools /replication / restores ??

2012-02-23 Thread Jack . Forester
Mark, We ran into this problem a few months ago when I got a call from our offshore support team who was trying to restore a file in Ireland, but it was running reeal slow. Turns out that the media server in Germany was reading the image off the Ireland media server and then sending it back