How ZFS Cache Impacts NBU Performance
Problem: Solaris 10 ZFS ARC Cache configured as default can gradually impact NetBackup performance at Memory level, forcing NBU to use a lot of Swap memory even when there are several Gig's of RAM "Available", in the following Solaris 10 server we initially see that 61% of the memory is own by ZFS File Data (ARC Cache) # echo ::memstat | mdb -k2.3KViews7likes4CommentsNetBackup LiveUpdate Configuration and LUA installation
Here is a sure fire way of installing NetBackup LiveUpdate on the system of your choice. The master server used with these procedure is Solaris 10 SPARC. First things first, you need to create a folder. In order for the windows machines to work as well as the unix machines, you need to create the folder in lowercase. Even though the instructions say otherwise.2.1KViews2likes2CommentsFull System Recovery of Unix/Linux client without BMR
A Full Unix/Linux client recovery from a backup image requires setting up a recovery environment on the target client hardware specifically for the activity. Overwriting system files on a running system will cause it to crash and leave it in a non-boot state.6.1KViews2likes0CommentsUnderstanding Disk Staging
Staging Backup— This is a process in which first data is copied on a Storage Unit then copied to another Storage unit. Images expire after copying data to secondary unit. Benefits— 1- This allows faster backup on disk first. Then copied the same on tape (a background process)3.3KViews1like1CommentNetBackup 7.6 Blueprints - BMR
The Technical Services team for Backup and Recovery have produced a number of documents we call "Blueprints". These Blueprints are designed to show backup and recovery challenges around specific technologies or functions and how NetBackup solves these challenges. Each Blueprint consists of:1.9KViews1like2Comments