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BlobZ
Level 2
10 years ago

NetBackup multiplexing SLP to tape

Hi everyone, Can you confirm or deny that it is valid/possible to create secondary copies of backups from a dedupe, standard or advanced disk pool to tape. We are finding that as we grow the ti...
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    Marianne
    10 years ago
    Not sure what your 1st statement/question is all about as duplication from any kind of disk backup is common practice. It sounds like you need assistance with troubleshooting and/or performance tuning of duplication of dedupe data to disk, right? Information about your environment will help. Are default SLP parameters used or customized? Duplication across the network or locally on the media server? Media server hardware config? Memory/cpu? Number of hba's and placement? Disk and tape on different hba's? Any kind of tuning done on the media server as per the Performance Tuning Guide?
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Marianne
Level 6
10 years ago

You may want to download the SLP Best Practice Guide:  http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH208536  
(The pdf is under the 'attachments' link.)

Go through topics such as:
Use duplication job priority to group SLPs 
Large duplication jobs are more efficient
Considerations for environments with very large images and many very small images
Considerations when duplicating multiple stream application backups 

etc...