Netbackup Appliances 5230 with PureDisk: How many streams?
Hi all, We recently migrated to Netbackup Appliances running Netbackup 7.6.0.1 (Appliance version 2.6.0.1 ) We are running 2 appliances per site, each site is its own NBU domain (We use AIR to replicate). Each appliance is configured with a 70TB PureDisk volume. We are quite new to PureDisk that is running on these systems, but at this moment they are limited to 80 streams maximum in the diskpool object (Which seems pretty low to me) At the moment we are running out of resources due to this maximum that has been set. What is the maximum streamcount a 5230 Appliance PureDisk can safely handle? Note that we are using AIR to replicate all our images, but replication is being done during the day, not during backup times... Any advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks!1KViews1like2Comments
Advanced Disk Space v De-Dupe Disk Space - 5230 Appliance
Hi, We have a new 5230 appliance where the internal disk has been set up (by default) in the following way: Catalog 20% - around 930GB Advanced Disk 16% De-duplication Pool 64% We intend to backup to site A, then use AIR to replicate to site B (another 5230 appliance) where the backup will be eventually vaulted off to tape. However, some data will stay at site A until its expiry date (1 year). We have various retention times and clients. 1. Are there any calculations for the amount of catalog ratio to backups. Is 20% catalog to high, should I resize this. I know its an open question somewhat but is there any rule of thumb? 2. As you can see, I have a mixture of Advanced Disk and De-dupe disk. How do we balance between de-dupe space and advanced disk? What is the difference? We want to get the benefit of de-dupe for every backup so why wouldnt we configure the whole capacity to be De-dupe disk and have no advanced? Would I use Advanced Disk for some backups and De-dupe for others? So we would end up with: Catalog 20% - around 930GB De-duplication Pool 80% Could someone help explain my options? Kind RegardsSolved2.4KViews0likes3Comments
Puredisk Appliance GUI sort order
Hello, I have a Puredisk Appliance. When I use the web GUI and go into the Manage->Policies area, the agents appear in the order they were added to the system instead of alphabetical order. This makes it very difficult to find the agent names when you have 200+. Does anyone know how to get these agents sorted alphabetically? Thank you very much!440Views0likes0Comments
MSDP encryption (ServerOptions=agent_crypt) (or should it be =encrypt)
Hi Forum, Page 30 of the NetBackup Deduplication Guide v7.5 says that... by default MSDP encryption is disabled by default, but they it is recommended by Symantec. Page 70 says that to enable encryption that we need to add "agent_crypt" to "ServerOptions=" in the ContentRouter.cfg file. But looking at the comments in the file: ; [no]agent_crypt : always disable/enable client-side encryption; ; [no]encrypt : always disable/enable encryption; ...indicates that using "agent_crypt" instructs the client-side deduplication agent to encrypt data. At our site we are not implementing client side deduplication so it woudl seem to me that setting :agent_crypt" won't have any effect. My questions are: 1) Is "agent_crypt" really the option to use if what we are trying to achieve is encryption of the post-dedupe blocks on teh MSDP data storage local to teh MSDP media server? 2) What does the "ServerOptions=encrypt" option do, and how is it different to "agent_crypt" ? 3) If we can determine which option really does enable post-dedupe encryption - then does anyone know what the CPU overhead is ? 4) Are there any particular models of CPU (SPARC or Intel or AMD) that implement the encryption/decryption in their hardware instruction sets - i.e. are there any CPUs that are much better suited for use with MSDP encryption ? Thanks, Dave.Solved1.8KViews1like4CommentsPuredisk system state job never runs
Hi All, new to Puredisk. For a long time now the system state and services backup never runs. It starts with "Prepare Backup Client Side" - and says "Aborted by Watchdog" Job 49846: Aborted by Watchdog window exceeded *** Supportability Summary *** jobid = 49846 jobstepid = 230403 agentid = 8 hostname = xxxxxxxxxxxx starttimejobstep = March 19, 2013, 4:04 am endtimejobstep = March 19, 2013, 4:04 am workflowstepname = PrepareBackup status = ABORTED_BY_WATCHDOG I have checked the policy and its is set to: Escalate warning after 6 hours Escalate error and terminate after 5 days. Any ideas why it is failing?457Views0likes1Comment
