Replicate Adv Disk backup between remote masters
I have a situation where I need to backup 3TB of compressed data on a regular basis. I have two 5220 appliances both acting as Master/Media servers. I really don't want it sitting in my Dedupe pool, so I'm trying to take advantage of the 3.5TB of Advanced Disk storage that I have. What I would like to do is to have one appliance backup the data and keep it for a week and have it copied over to the remote master and stay for another week, about 2 weeks total retention. Any thoughts on how to do this? I thought I could back it up to the Dedup pool on the local master, duplicate it to AdvDisk and replicate to the remote master, but that doesn't seem to be working. I know I will have to use the Dedup pool for AIR, but I want that backup to expire immediately if possible.Solved1.4KViews0likes2Comments
What is the best way to use NetBackup Appliance to backup large NAS system
We are in the middle of a project to replace our current BackupExec 2012 with Data Domain 565 backup architecture with one of 3 possible solutions: 1. NetBackup 5230 Appliances (1x5230 with 76TB at primary DC and 2x5230 with 76TB each at secondary DC) 2. EMC Avamar/DD2500 (with NDMP Accelerator node and 1x90TB at primary DC and 1x135TB at secondary DC) 3. Commvault Simpana (dont have as much detail on this option, mainly looked at a Backup Service with a local provider that would use this system) Here are some details about our current storage architecture: Primary SAN = EMC VNX 5300 with some block level and file level storage Secondary SAN = EMC VNX 5300 with some block level and file level storage Use RecoverPoint to replicate block level storage (LUNs) between SANs Use VNX Replicator to replicate file level storage (file systems) netweem SANs We are almost 100% virtualized with VMware 5.0 host servers (3 hosts at primary and 3 hosts at secondary sites) 100Mbps metro ethernet between data centers Ok, so here is where our backup problems come up: 5 x NAS file systems stored on file level side of VNX 5300 fs1 = 7.2TB file system takes too long to back up fs2 = about 8TB of small files that is out image archive system (130 milion files) fs3 = large file archive about 11TB, only has data added each quarter of the year (about 400-500GB per quarter), these files are manally moved from production file systems into this archive area, but users need access to this read only data 24x7 as needed This is probably enough detail for now... We like the Symantec approach and would like to go with it but are not 100% sure how it will handle these lare file systems. We have been told so far that we can use NetBackup Accelerator to backup the large file systems, but it I am not convinced. I do like the way the NetBackup appliance is directly attached to the storage and I think that will help make the backup jobs more efficient with less network parts in the puzzle. I also like the NBU interface best so far. I like the Avamar/Data Domain approach since we are familar with Data Domain already and we know what kind of depuplication we should get. Plus, since we have had the EMC VNX SANs, I have had good experience with EMC support so far and this would be more of the same in that sense. Symantec support for BackupExec... sucks... I am not a big fan of NDMP and the Avamar solution would leverage that. I have seem many posts that Anyway, I guess what I am hoping to hear is someone has gone through something simular and has used a NBU appliance with NBU accelerator to SUCCESSFULLY backup their large NAS file systems ON A VNX series SAN. OR is Avamar with NDMP backups our best bet.Solved2.6KViews1like7Comments
5220 Appliance Topology - Help
Hi. Need help with appliance configuration. 1 NBU Domain, 1 NBU Master 7.1 (Datacentre 1) Datacentre 1 1 x physical Master 3 x 32Tb 5220 Load balanced MSDP of all appliances. Duplication target for Datacentre 2 and remote sites. Manage tape library for long retention. Datacentre 2 2 x 32Tb 5220 Load balanced MSDP of both appliances. Duplication of images to Datacentre 1 for tape out. Remote sites x 6 1 x 4Tb 5220 Local de-dupe of clients, then duplicate images back to Datacentre 1 for tape out. The questions I have are; Can the three appliances in Datacentre 1 be aggregated into one storage pool (96Tb) and be load balanced and share de-dupe metadata? Can the two appliances at Datacentre 2 be aggregated into one storage pool (64Tb) and be load balanced and share de-dupe metadata? Will the remote site appliances have their own local de-dupe catalogue and not be globally de-duping with DC1 & DC2? Suppose the remaing question would be (if yes, yes, yes) how can I implement this? Thanks in advance. --MattSolved687Views0likes3Comments