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bkupmagic
Level 2
9 years ago

Should I use the same storage for OS part and Backup DB part?

We are trying to set up Linux server for the backup server, and are using NetApp storage for the both OS part and Backup data part. We have two different type of stroage both from NetApp. One is F...
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  • areznik's avatar
    areznik
    9 years ago

    I dont think we can answer this question for you - the answer will come down to two parts: 

    1) What do you have available?   and    2) What does the customer need? 

    For example - if you have 2 storage devices and one is more highly reliable, you might ask the customer if one dataset is more important than the other and put that on the better storage.

    From a purely technical Netbackup perspective it doesnt matter where the data goes as long as the destination is up, reachable and has available disk space. 

     

jim_dalton's avatar
jim_dalton
Level 6
9 years ago

What else is on the netapp storage?  Is it also home to more data and vms that you will be backing up? If in effect you are backing up the data from the netapp and storing it on the netapp , then if you have storage issues all your eggs are in one basket and you have a major problem.That would tempt me to store things away elsewhere. Jim