If you are looking to do offsite replication of your Netbackup data only, they you should look at backup appliances, and the use of OST. OST and an appliance from a vendor (DataDomain, Greenbytes, etc.) that supports it, can really simplify your backup replication and recovery.
-Andrew -----Original Message----- From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of santoyx Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 9:18 AM To: VERITAS-BU@MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN.EDU Subject: [Veritas-bu] Best architecture for deduplication with NetBackup Hi Jeff. Although I have a CX4-120 (yes it's a EMC CLARiiON) I will not replicate the data using a storage feature. I want to use the Netbackup to do that replication. That's why I won't use a appliance like the Data Domain. -- ORIGINAL MESSAGE -- Best architecture for deduplication with NetBackup We haven't used the NBU native deduplication yet so can't advise on that. However, your comment about not needing dedupe appliances yet and the mention of CX4-120 (I'm assuming this is a Clariion array from EMC) made me want respond. Dedupe appliances (at least the ones from Data Domain[now EMC]) allow for replication between sites. Since there are different sized DD units it might even be possible to have smaller ones at the remote locations all replicating to a larger one in your central location. You'd have to check with them on that. Clariions are good for holding lots of storage but aren't incredibly fast unless you're using the fibre drives rather than the ATA ones. Their SANCopy software has limits that made us decide we couldn't use it when we were migrating a couple of years back. I doubt it has changed that much. You want to look into its capabilities before planning on using it for replicating to a central location. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by sant...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu