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John_Fucci
15 years agoLevel 3
Backup Exec is running on Windows 2003 Server. And why would having the disks physically located on the Backup Exec server be a definite no-no?
The backups are done to disk first for performance reasons. After the backups are complete, a job is run that duplicates the backups to tape, so there are copies that are stored off-site. Also, having the backups available on disk provides for faster restores as well when dealing with restoring files or directories.
We are not going to RAID the disks together, because as the amount of data that needs to be backed up grows, so will the space need for backups, and all we would have to do is add another disk and make it a member of the pool.
What I want to know is if my assumption on how Backup Exec treats the disks in the pool is correct.
The backups are done to disk first for performance reasons. After the backups are complete, a job is run that duplicates the backups to tape, so there are copies that are stored off-site. Also, having the backups available on disk provides for faster restores as well when dealing with restoring files or directories.
We are not going to RAID the disks together, because as the amount of data that needs to be backed up grows, so will the space need for backups, and all we would have to do is add another disk and make it a member of the pool.
What I want to know is if my assumption on how Backup Exec treats the disks in the pool is correct.
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