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Sachin507
Level 3
7 years ago

Vmware accelerator backup and BLIB Vmware backup

Hi Team,

 

I have a query, If we are doing netbackup BLIB Vmware backup, is there any benefit to use netbackup VMware accelerator backup.  

Also if we doing VM accelator backup , how can we check actual size of incremental data backuped using opscenter reports on monthly basis, as Kilobytes backed will show the complete size of VM in both incremental and full. For reporting purposes we need to be sure how much actual changes we are backing in incrementals.

 

Thanks

Sachin

 

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  • Thiago_Ribeiro's avatar
    Thiago_Ribeiro
    Moderator
    5 years ago

    Hi Sachin507  new2nbu 

    Hi everyone,

    Sometime ago I was talking with veritas consultant about this question because I had the same doubt. At that time I was using about netbackup 8.0 / appliance 3.0. He told me that there is not much difference between Incremental (with BLIB) and Full with accelerator enabled.

    In my scenario we had a vsphere 6.0 and in this version there was a problem when CBT was enabled together with Incremental backups, as you can see below

    https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/vddk-600-releasenotes.html

    To summarize he recommended the use of the accelarator with Full backups.

    Hope this helps.

    Thiago

    • new2nbu's avatar
      new2nbu
      Level 4
      5 years ago

      Thank you, Thiago for the reply.  This is for sure helpful.  In our environment, we did not use Incremental schedules with our VMWare Full Backups and still ran into issues with CBT in VMWare v6 as well - where the snap should not consolidate and subsequent backups would fail.   As a result, I have since disabled BLIB and was doing Full VMWare snapshots (full mapped vm for file/folder recovery).  But I want to take better advantage of the VMWare backup technology however based on what I read BLIB and Accelerator seemed to be very similarly leveraging VMWare CBT.   With Accelerator - do you have a periodic full happening b/c essentially it's a synthetic full right?  From the documentation, it seems good to periodically reset the archive bit (same as you would if there's a power outage, etc) and have a standard Full backup written.  Also from the documentation, Accelerator is not supposed to grow the catalog unnecessarily large - have you found any penalties or downsides with Accelerator.  Thanks in advance.

  • new2nbu's avatar
    new2nbu
    Level 4
    5 years ago

    Hi, I am investigating into using NBU Accelerator as well and had the same question.  Did you ever receive a response or determine an answer to your question?  Thank you in advance.