@Marianne wrote:You cannot mount XFS filesystem on Solaris.
If you had Veritas Infoscale Storage, you would be able to.
Infoscale uses the same volume manager (VxVM) and same filesystem (VxFS) on all supported OS's. The Cross-Platform Data Sharing (CDS) feature makes it possible to 'port' volumes between OS's.
@mad_about_you wrote:initially, i have a 9TB msdp(?) partition where backup images are written during backup prior to deduplication. it's on xfs. the way this whole server was configured doesn't allow me to expand the 9TB so i replaced it with a larger one but still on xfs.
You are misunderstanding the whole concept of MSDP. There is no such thing as 'backups are written prior to deduplication'. MSDP does inline dedupe. (I have previously referred you to the NBU Dedupe manual)
maybe if i describe how my nbu server is configured that would clear things up.
i have a single server that is master and media.
in the server, i have two partitions, one for the OS and where NBU is installed. it's on ext3 filesystem.
the second partition, the 14TB, is on xfs filesystem. let's call this NBU_DSU
everytime a backup policy runs, NBU_DSU available space decreases. now when a deduplication process starts and finishes, the available space in NBU_DSU increases.
that tells me that NBU_DSU is being used during backup as a temporary place and it is also used to read from during deduplication to tape.
here is a snapshot from the management console attached.
what is it called or the correct term to use?
