07-16-2014 07:05 AM
I'm looking at buying a NAS device for backing up our data over fibre to another site. We currently backup to folder on portable usb drives and take these home every night. Is it just a matter of changing the location in backup exec to the NAS network location?
The nas device im looking at purchasing is a Qsnap TS 421U 12TB drive. I've coppied and pasted below what I believe are the key technologies:
iSCSI (IP SAN)
iSCSI Target with Multiple LUNS per Target (Up to 256 Targets/LUNs Combined)
LUN Mapping & Masking
Online LUN Capacity Expansion
Supports SPC-3 Persistent Reservation
Supports MPIO & MC/S
iSCSI LUN Backup, One-time Snapshot, and Restore
iSCSI Connection and Management by QNAP Finder (Windows)
Stack Chaining Master: Up to 8 Virtual Disk Drives (via iSCSI Initiator
File System
Internal HDD: EXT3, EXT4
External HDD: EXT3, EXT4, NTFS, FAT32, HFS+
Networking:
Protocols: CIFS/SMB, AFP (v3.3), NFS(v3), FTP, FTPS, SFTP, TFTP, HTTP(S), Telnet, SSH, iSCSI, SNMP, SMTP, and SMSC
07-16-2014 09:08 AM
Hi resolver101,
make sure you check the Backup Exec 2010 HCL to verify it is supported and that it will work. http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH137050
07-16-2014 09:16 AM
07-17-2014 05:38 AM
We dont have the NAS device in our hands at the moment so cant run the test, we're thinking of purchasing it.
The fibre link is about a 130 meters long. The route is from our server room to a building at the opposite side of our site. Here's the route in terms of equipment:
Server room in the offices (Gigabit) -> (gigbit) switch (fibre) -> (Fibre) switch (Fibre) -> (fibre) switch (Gigabit ) -> NAS device (destination)
I've coppied a 600MB file from the backup exec server in our server room to a computer connected to the destination switch and it coppied in about 10 seconds. Windows reports the transfer rate at about 60 MegaBytes a second. Hope that gives you some information on speed/equipment/network we have in place.
Thanks