[SunHELP] looking for backup ideas

[Les]

It is USUALLY cheaper (licenses) to have one powerful backup server
with high bandwidth than 2 or more smaller ones. But, you lose
redundancy. How you do what you do depends on your company
philosophy and requirements.

You can gain in efficiency the extra you pay for software
to have multiple save streams coming from multiple servers
to one or two central backup servers.

I have not used Amanda, but if it allows you to do the same
I would take a serious look at it.

To the best of my knowledge, tar won't work that way no matter
how you configure the setup.

If you want to use tar for more than about a dozen servers
all I see is a maintenance nightmare unless each uses it's
own tape drive which is what you stated you were trying to
move away from.

I don't know what other answers can be given you than what has
already been said by the folks on the list.


Les

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Buford III" <henry.buford at veritas.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: [SunHELP] looking for backup ideas


..  I don't want
> to have to worry about having 2 machines trying to tar to the drive at the
> same time.


Ironically, often times, the best way to improve your backup performance
with NetBackup is to configure your backups to stream backup data from
multiple servers simultaneously.


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