Hi, I will be rebuilding our existing puredisk server soon. My predecessor did not keep it up to speed and it just needs to be redone from scratch. I have 5 file servers that are remote office Windows file servers across the country. I am curren...
Other than bpdowning everything is there anything else I need to do if I want to make the drive my deduplication pool is on bigger? It is on Windows 2008 R2 box and I have 7.0.1 installed. Also the rock hard .8 EEB is installed for the deduplicatio...
At what point should VCS be installed? At the time of the OS load or does the Installer Wizard install the VCS?
Can anyone give me a document or guidelines on how to decide client side deduplication or media server deduplciation as I need to gives this to one of our clients.
Hi all, Storage space utilisation is reached 98%. I have deleted one of the client to free up some space. But even after deleting the client i am not able to reclaim some space. I can see the deleted client in data mining report with the detailed spa...
Hi friends, In our PureDisk setup, i can see only one backup job runs for one client at a time. The next job starts after the completion of first one. Is there any option to run multple backup selection templates at a time for same client. (Such as w...
Netbackup does integrated de duplication Also for large environments symantec recommends you use pure disk instead of netbackup for just de deuplication Need to know the limitations on de dup for netbackup? Anything on puredisk on size limitati...
Has anyone run into competitors (Data Domain) who assert that PD has a single point of failure; use of postgress database? If so, what is our response to this assertion. Is it true? Workarounds?
Hi, can someone help me? im trying to export backup images from my puredisk server to my nbu server using the commandline. im confuse with what commands im going to use. kindly help me the steps on how i can do this using the commandline. thanks in a...
Hi all, I've read the Puredisk 6.6.1 best practices guide and it mentions a Storage Pool Calculator to determine sizes etc. Where does this live? Where can I get a copy? Any help will be appreciated. Rick
Our environment is a NetBackup 7.0.1, PureDisk 6.6.1 SPA 4 nodes: 1. SPA (mbs, mbe) 2. MBE(only) 3. CR(only) 4. CR(only) and 5. failover that is replicating to an identical SPA setup at the DR site using NetBackup optimized duplication via Vault poli...
Hi all, IHAC that has configured a central SPA (5 nodes non HA) in ESX4.1 (3 ESX Hosts) and has 80 remote office locations replicating to the central SPA. Node breakdown as below 1 SPA, MBE,CR 2 CR,MBE 3 CR,MBE 4 CR 5 CR Each node is configure...
I'm having problems running the backup policy wizard, I will like to use the unc path for the data selection but every time I try to browse to the files I want to back up I get the this error. "unable to execute dirlist on agent agentname for path:...
Regarding Puredisk Content Router Garbage Collection workflows, is there a way to determine how far a run of this has got to and when it will end? I'm looking for something similar to looking at /Storage/log/spoold/storage.log as one can for the CR Q...
We've two Puredisk SPA pools each around 100TB and about 70% full. We use Puredisk for PDDO Netbackup images only. We're currently on Puredisk 6.5.1.2 moving to 6.6.0.3 shortly. Currently we run the PDDO Data Removal workflow then the Metabase Garbag...
Hello, We currently have a puredisk pool of 30TB which is running low in space. I added a new lun to extend this pool. The backup server has this configuration : windows 2008 R2 disk pool is a dynamic spanned volume with 4 lun with a total of 30TB ho...
We are looking to implement the DeDuplication available with NetBackup 7.0, (both Media Server and Client Side). My question is regarding the disk we use. Has anyone implemented this using SATA disk? If so, did you see any performance issues? We are ...
I have 23 remote file servers backing up to a Puredisk server here on site. I am in the process of upgrading my NBU 6.5.5 to NBU 7.0. Does anyone have any experience with NBU 7.0 dedupe? Or better yet, does anyone have any experience with Puredisk...
We're running a POC with 10TB allocated (EMC Clariion), problem is we need to move storage for better utilization - we've created clone and will snap copy data to LUN - present copied data to PD with previous host ID. So from PD persective would look...
Can someone tell me if the Best Practice has changed in regards to the number of archives per vault store. I know at one time it was recommended that no more than 5,000 mailboxes be assigned to one vault store. I have a feeling this has changed som...
