05-22-2014 11:45 PM
Dear All,
If i want to replicate the 2 TB of Data from my Primary Location to DR Location with NBU Appliance 5220. How much Bandwith and time is required.
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05-23-2014 03:53 AM
That is not an easy question to answer as it is all down to de-dupe.
Let me try and explian...
If you backup a 2TB server to your MSDP server on the primary site it will de-dupe some of that data itself.
If you could also backup the same server to the appliance that is due to be sent to the DR site then it will do the same - but will have all the same data and fingerprints as the live site appliance.
So next time you run the backup you would get pretty much 100% de-dupe on the primary site and as the dr site has the same set of fingerprints it would need to send a minimal amout of data across the link in order to replicate that 2TB backup - so a 56k modem may be enough!!
On the other hand your DR site appliance may be blank in which case the first AIR replication may need to send over 1TB across the link so you could do that calculation for yourself.. but the next backup that runs would not need to send much across as you now have a well seeded appliance at the DR site.
All very much down to whether you can seed the DR appliance first and what sort of de-dupe rates your are actually getting for your data as that will have an effect too.
So encrypted Oracle files or video files that do not de-dupe will need a lot of bandwidth and time to replicate where as docs data etc with near 100% de-dupe will need very little
So the answer to your questions is pretty much that there is no answer!
Hope that all makes sense and helps - seed it first if possible and look at your de-dupe rates to answwer your own question
05-23-2014 03:53 AM
That is not an easy question to answer as it is all down to de-dupe.
Let me try and explian...
If you backup a 2TB server to your MSDP server on the primary site it will de-dupe some of that data itself.
If you could also backup the same server to the appliance that is due to be sent to the DR site then it will do the same - but will have all the same data and fingerprints as the live site appliance.
So next time you run the backup you would get pretty much 100% de-dupe on the primary site and as the dr site has the same set of fingerprints it would need to send a minimal amout of data across the link in order to replicate that 2TB backup - so a 56k modem may be enough!!
On the other hand your DR site appliance may be blank in which case the first AIR replication may need to send over 1TB across the link so you could do that calculation for yourself.. but the next backup that runs would not need to send much across as you now have a well seeded appliance at the DR site.
All very much down to whether you can seed the DR appliance first and what sort of de-dupe rates your are actually getting for your data as that will have an effect too.
So encrypted Oracle files or video files that do not de-dupe will need a lot of bandwidth and time to replicate where as docs data etc with near 100% de-dupe will need very little
So the answer to your questions is pretty much that there is no answer!
Hope that all makes sense and helps - seed it first if possible and look at your de-dupe rates to answwer your own question
05-30-2014 01:47 PM
Mark is right on the money. One thing you will need to consider too is how much pipe can you use without interupting service for other apps.
This doc will help you throttle bandwidth between media servers so that replication of your backups does not become a burdon on the day to day operations.
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH185360
Sully
06-01-2014 01:16 AM
Transfer rate calculator: http://www.calctool.org/CALC/prof/computing/transfer_time
06-02-2014 05:04 AM
Do bear in mind that if you need to throttle it on an appliance you may need to use the agent.cfg file on the Appliance (BandwidthLimit setting)
It can be a tricky one to actually set up and get right
All much improved at 2.6.0.2 so get there when you can!