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sansoen
14 years ago
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Netbackup 7.5 and Veeam Backup

Can i use same physical server for Netbackup 7.5 and Veeam Backup ? I mean backup server can operate 2 Software ?

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I have configured in my environment:

    Veeam Backup & Recovery Server as a VM and a physical server that acts as a Veeam Backup Proxy AND Repository server AND NetBackup Media Server running  Windows 2008 R2.

    Works well. Does depend on your work load. And that we now only send to tape Production VM's.

    Depends on your 'shop' but lots of Veeam customers use Backup Exec. to tape.

    But maybe Veeam in future? 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I have configured in my environment:

    Veeam Backup & Recovery Server as a VM and a physical server that acts as a Veeam Backup Proxy AND Repository server AND NetBackup Media Server running  Windows 2008 R2.

    Works well. Does depend on your work load. And that we now only send to tape Production VM's.

    Depends on your 'shop' but lots of Veeam customers use Backup Exec. to tape.

    But maybe Veeam in future? 

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

     

    May I add we are looking to change that Windows 2008 R2 box with Windows Server 2012 and use the new features of 2012 and create a deduplication appliance out of the repository volumes hung of that server.

    And I can say have seen dedupe returns on a small backup run of 90% savings using a test 2012 box.

    Seriously check out Windows Server 2012 and deduplication... could mean a lot of competition in the market place between a hardware dedupe appliance and a server OS with features built in.

    Its a game changer for sure this specific feature in 2012.

    Licensing has also changed.... most likely folks would purchase a Datacenter license.

  • RLeon's avatar
    RLeon
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    So with Windows Server 2012, essentially I could have a deduplicated BasicDisk/AdvancedDisk!
    Interesting...... Let's see what Symantec is going to say about that.

    Hopefully we won't have to wait until alot of people have started doing this before we'd get some reaction out of the licensing team.
    Of course it'd also be interesting to hear from engineering what they think about this practice from a technical standpoint. Unbiased, I could only hope.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Thats the way I see it.

    Worth a look.

    AND the great thing is there is a MS tool available right now which you can run against a disk on say a Windows 2008 server, which would show you the dedupe savings if placed on a Windows Server 2012 dedupe volume.

    See here for more.

     

    Data Deduplication
     
     
    Licensing (V.Good Article)
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    RLeon
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    The suspense is overwhelming...

    Nonetheless... Excccccellent stuff......

    Edit: On the larger scale, you could say that this kind of target deduplication has already been going on in the form of VTLs.
    And for disk based target deduplication, there have been things like Isolon and NetApp NAS products that deduplicate CIFS/NFS storage. Effectively giving you deduplicated BasicDisk/AdvancedDisk.

    But still, bringing this to the OS level should change things a bit.