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Sara_88
Level 3
11 years ago

Backup site

Hello everyone,

 

I’m setting up a backup site.  With below details

 

Total data to be backed up: 120 TB monthly  including full and incremental

Number of clients: 12

One master/media server: windows 2012. With two SAN connection to the switch

                              

Tape library with 6 LTO4 dirves connectdd to the Switch

 

Backup will be done through network from clients

 

 

What is the suggested CPU/RAM requirement for the master/media server for  this environment?

Any comments or suggestion on the design ?

 

Thanks

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  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    11 years ago

    Hi Sara,

    i Suggest you to start it from below T/N

    Designing your backup system

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO99775

    How to design and configure your master server

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO99755#id-SF0S0132821

     
    How to estimate the number of media servers needed
    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO99757#id-SF0S0144421

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  • RamNagalla's avatar
    RamNagalla
    Moderator
    11 years ago

    Hi Sara,

    i Suggest you to start it from below T/N

    Designing your backup system

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO99775

    How to design and configure your master server

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO99755#id-SF0S0132821

     
    How to estimate the number of media servers needed
    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO99757#id-SF0S0144421
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    Level 6
    11 years ago

    It is never a good idea to attach 6 tape drives to a single server.
    Very few servers can stream more than 3 or 4 tape drives at tape vendor's recommended speeds. 

    Another consideration is client and master/media server network connectivity - a sigle 1 Gb network card can at best receive data at 100MB/sec. That is barely sufficient to stream a single LTO4 tape drive.

    Have a look at the 'featured discussion' at the top of the NetBackup forum page:

    Updated NetBackup Backup Planning and Performance Tuning Guide for Release 7.5 and Release 7.6

    Extract:

    This manual is intended to provide guidance on questions such as the following: How big should the NetBackup master server be? How can the server be tuned for maximum performance? How many CPUs and disk or tape drives are needed? How to configure backups to run as fast as possible? How to improve recovery times? What tools can characterize or measure how NetBackup handles data?