Agreed.
Also, be aware that you will typically not be able to stream data to a
disk array as fast as you can to tape drives. (Assuming LTO3 or 4 type
performance.) Unless you have a pretty beefy disk array with your RAID
configured for streaming. The nice part is that since it is disk, small
backups and slow backups won't have "shoeshine" problems like you would
with tape.
I like to set a high water mark on the disk to keep it at 85% or lower.
Generally, 85% full is the point where disk performance starts getting hit
hard. Fragmentation will also start hitting the performance hard at that
point too.
I've yet to see de-staging perform well no matter what the disk array
used for the DSSU.
Bryan
Ed Wilts <ewi...@ewilts.org>
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Victor Engle <victor.en...@gmail.com>
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Re: [Veritas-bu] Architectural question (staging)
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Victor Engle <victor.en...@gmail.com>
wrote:
So my question is how best to configure the DSSUs with the goal of
optimized de-staging. I will have 6TB to configure as desired on the
backup server. If I understand correctly, the more concurrent streams
allowed to the DSSUs, the slower the de-staging because of interleaved
backup streams.
The DSSU consists of a set of files with each file being a backup image
and you define the maximum size of each file within an image. There is no
"interleaving". When you destage, one image at a time goes to tape.
Watch your fragment sizes and watch your disk file system
fragmentation...
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewi...@ewilts.org
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