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osvaldo_olmedo
Level 4
9 years ago

NDMP backups of 8TB filesystem on NAS (EMC VNX5200) device

Hello people, I have the following situation: I am configuring a NDMP backup of a NAS device (EMC VNX5200 storage), for administrative reasons, the NAS admin has configured a big filesystem (where sev...
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    Nicolai
    9 years ago

    What type of NDMP backup are you using - the tar based or volume based type ?

    http://corpusweb130.corp.emc.com/upd_prod_VNX/UPDFinalPDF/en/NDMP_Backups.pdf

    See page 30. The volume based backup (set type = vbb)  type is much faster but on the cost of restore time. The "tar" backup method can be very slow for unstructured small files.

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Nicolai
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9 years ago

What type of NDMP backup are you using - the tar based or volume based type ?

http://corpusweb130.corp.emc.com/upd_prod_VNX/UPDFinalPDF/en/NDMP_Backups.pdf

See page 30. The volume based backup (set type = vbb)  type is much faster but on the cost of restore time. The "tar" backup method can be very slow for unstructured small files.