Fibre Drives, yet Copper is being used

[Cupis]

Hi,

I am having difficulty utilising my Fibre connectivity to its full extent. Currently it appears that when I backup the remote server, the information is passed through the media server (via copper) for processing which then pushes it to our tape drives (via fibre). 

I have been reading through some documentation and some forum discussions and this appears to be normal operation. Well at least where it was suggested other ways, I am not sure I understand what they are talking about.

So what I am trying to do is that instead of remote server passing through the media server via copper, it should pass directly to tape (which the agent could do?) or it should go through the Media server via fibre.

Right now, the copper is maxed out and our performance is maxxed out. Is there a way of doing what I want? Or will we be limited to the Copper? Is this maybe just a limitation with Backup Exec?

Regards,

Stuart

[VJware · Accepted solution]

Would recommend a read at this article - https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.TECH68820

[Cupis]

Hi VJWare,

Awesome article that was exactly what I was looking for! Explains it clearly.

Kind Regards,

Stuart

[Colin_Weaver]

I am going to add a link to that document (and mention Fiber Channel networks) into this Blog - which also discusses backups not using the production LAN, so is useful for other forum members to accompany VJware's solution to this posters's question

https://www.veritas.com/community/blogs/lan-free-including-san-backup-configurations-backup-exec