All,
I'm wondering what everyone is doing to backup blade servers. For one of my customers, we have a dedicated disk SAN with a separate Tape fabric for backups. We backup most servers over the network, unless it's large (~200gb) at which point we put another HBA in for tape connection. With the blades we are using, we only have 2 HBA ports to use for each blade. Both are going to the disk SAN for redundancy. This leaves me with pulling quite a bit of data over the LAN for backups. Anyone have any creative ideas? I really don't want to mix tape and disk on the same SAN (I know this has been debated here before). I know I can just put into effect a policy that says "no more than ~200gb per blade", but it feels like there should be a better answer. Looking to start a discussion on what others are doing when faced with this problem to get ideas flowing. Thanks! Kris _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
