Netbackup Architecture Planner
File attached helps you to calculate enterprise netbackup architecture design. It helps in designing infrastucture for backup such as 1. Master server configurations 2. Number of media servers and configurations 3. Number of Tape drives required 4. Tape library configurations required
Netbackup Report Script to determine media used by clients
The attached UNIX bash script "media_used_by_clients.txt" is a script I wrote so we could track by server/client what media was used . This gives us a daily history on a per server basis for what tapes are needed in the event of a disaster. We have this setup in a crontab entry on our master servers. A suggested crontab entry would be:
Drive Up Script for Netbackup
Hi Folks, I wrote this script last year during my engagement with a major bank in India. The customer had 150 media servers and it was cumbersome and time consuming to up the drives. Along with using this script, Its adviceable to closely monitor the frequently going DOWN drives and suspected hardware errors should be fixed.