I am working on getting a Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 solution implemented in our division, and was wondering if anyone has a solution to my problem.
Here is our scenario:
We have implemented a backup server with a rather large RAID 5 storage pool on it. BUE is installed on it and the departmental servers have the remote agents installed on them. Each night when we do a backup, the backups will be stored on the backup server, the following night, HP OpenView Data Protector will take the previous nightâs backup and move it to tape. Therefore, we will always have the most recent set of backups on disk, on the network, thereby keeping the most recent backups available more quickly than having to go to tape to restore. In the event of a disaster, or if the backup server fails, we will go to tape to restore. When setting the options for a backup, there is an option in the BUE console under File> New Backup Job> then under the General heading, that asks for compression type. The options for compression are: None, Hardware, Software, and Hardware (if available, otherwise software). The manual says that the software compression BUE uses is called STAC.
When I kicked off a test backup job of a certain directory without the compression enabled, the size of the resulting .bkf file on the backup server was about 750MB. I checked the size of the directory on the server to be backed up, and they matched. Leading me to believe that the backup worked.
However, when I enabled the hardware (if available, otherwise software) option, and ran the same job, the backup resulted in a .bkf file of 750MB. It didnât compressâ¦
If anyone can shed some light on this situation, I would really appreciate it.