Can this be done?

[smwoodcrafts]

This is going to be, in my mind, compicated and long, but please bear with me.

We have 2 completely separate Netbackup environments. One in the US and one in London.

US runs 2003 Enterprise server and Netbackup 7.0.1

London 2003 Standard server and Netbackup 6.5.3 (soon to be upgraded to 7.0.1)

We just sent an NBU5000 appliance to London to be used with that environment. (That's why the upgrade) Due to circumstances beyond our control, we now have an Exchange 2010 DAG that spans both sites. At the moment, the London portion is not in production, but it will be soon and need to be backed up. Since the US portion is already being backed up in the US environment, the London portion will need to be backed up via the US environment. Since we don't want this to be backed up over the WAN, we need to have a media server and storage in London that's attached to our US environment. They want, also, use the NBU5000 appliance for the storage.

Whew that was alot of background. Now to the question:

Can the appliance be hooked up and used by both separate environments? How?

[Sebastian_Baszc · Accepted solution]

Hey,

Well... technically - it can be done. NBU5000 is esentially PureDisk and it is integrated with NetBackup as OST deduplication device. So essentially you can poin the Media Server in the US to use PureDisk Appliance and send that data over the WAN....

Now....

If your exchange server has 2 nodes and both are backed up by your US NetBackup - it means that those NetBackup clients are registered in the American NBU domain. I don't recommend to have one client connected to one env and another one to another NBU domain.

I would recommend the following approach:

1. Upgrade both NetBackup environments to 7.1.0.2

2. Make sure both sides have Deduplication Disk Pools (either MSDP or NBU5000)

3. Create LifeCyclePolicy with AIR (replicate the data to another NetBackup domain and autoimport images to the NetBackup Catalog on the other side. Configure both sides for AIR.

4. Create Exchange Policy in the US which backs up only London data, specify LifeCyclePolicy created in point 3.

5. Test the backup.

Hope it helps.

[Altimate1]

Just one thing to check is that OST device (like N5000) is yet (or not) supported for AIR.
At launch time, only MSDP where supported.

BTW: here is a tutorial video about AIR http://www.symantec.com/connect/videos/nbu71-air-automatic-image-replication-video-demo-0

Regards

[smwoodcrafts]

Thanks to both for the info. I guess I chose the wrong button as this was a question and not something I needed a solution for. Both responses has shedsome light on the situation.

smwoodcrafts