Hi there
Just wanting to leverage off some of you backup gurus out there. We've been using backup directly to tape for some time now and we're in the process of purchasing a new backup server, disk enclosure & tape drives so we can carry out D2D2T. The details are below:
Dell PE2950 with MD1000 disk enclosure (8 x 750GB SATA disks) plus two LTO4 external tape drives. We'll install Backup Exec 11d on the backup server. We'll probably use Windows Server 2003 64 bit standard as the OS.
We'll backup to disk overnight and then write to tape once that has finished ending with the tapes being taken off site.
I'm looking to get some advice on how to partition & format the array that we'll be backing up to. Can anyone give me some advice on what cluster size to use? What about one big partition versus a few smaller ones? Anything else I should consider with our hardware setup that relates to backing up using BE11d?
Thanks in advance!
Frank