osvaldo_olmedo
9 years agoLevel 4
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...
- 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.