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backup-botw
Level 6
9 years ago

Throughput Benchmarking

We are going to be looking into doing some upgrades in my organization and one thing we want to switch out is our LTO 4 drives for LTO 6's as well as getting off of an older VNX device that hosts our...
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  • Will_Restore's avatar
    Will_Restore
    9 years ago
    GEN_DATA Concept:
    A need was identified to provide a means of generating test data to process through NetBackup. This data should be:
    • Repeatable and controllable.
    • As 'light-weight' as possible during generation.
    • Indistinguishable from regular data, to allow for further processing, such as duplications, verifies, restores, etc.

     

    Documentation: How to use the GEN_DATA file list directives with NetBackup for UNIX/Linux Clients for Performance Tuning

    https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.000091135

     

     

backup-botw's avatar
backup-botw
Level 6
9 years ago

I think the discussion is right on target with my question. Doing benchmarking to do vendor device comparisons as we plan to migrate to new disk related hardware or an appliance. All of the information is certainly helping me out for sure and I enjoy the various feedback. Definitely appreciate the diiferent viewpoints and extra information as for me its all tied together.