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jbiggley
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14 years ago

Netbackup 7.01 VMware Snapshots using SAN transfer type - still network traffic?

I'm trying to use Netbackup 7.01 to perform VMware snapshot backups using the vStorage API from a vSphere 4 environment.  I've configured the off-host backups to a media server (not the master server...
  • VirtualED's avatar
    14 years ago

    The bpbrm from the media server sends the catalog information to the bpdbm on the master server usually after receiving a certain amount of information.  I am not sure if it is a number of files or just a size.  But it should definitely explain what is being sent to the Master.  You probable will also see other communications to the master/EMM server.  As the media server needs to keep let the master server know its current status.