Not at all...didn't even consider tuning for the WAN (10Mb/s
w/encryption)
The idea of an alt interface for those connections might be a good one.
I'm also fighting with tuning GigE cards.
Our VAR sent me a link to sunsolve doc 81911...looks like it might help
in my case.
Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
> Sent: February 16, 2006 9:14 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites
>
>
> Did you put much time into tuning the TCP/IP parameters for
> the "Bandwidth
> Delay Product" over the link? I've been doing a lot of
> reading about TCP
> tuning and a lot of it seems to relate to WAN link tuning for
> performance.
> Basically keeping the pipe full by turning on window scaling
> and setting
> an appropriate TCP window size. People report very large
> improvements
> after playing around with the settings, but it does depend on having
> separate WAN interfaces for backups to e.g. the interface
> used for short
> packets like telnet or a web server.
>
> I don't have any WAN links to deal with, I'm just trying to
> get the most
> out of the GbE and 100Mbps LAN. Mind bending stuff,
> especially as each
> Windows version changes the way it works.
>
> I would be interested if anyone has worked out what works and
> what does
> not.
>
> William D L Brown
>
>
>
>
> "Paul Keating" <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca>
> Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> 16-Feb-2006 13:05
>
> To
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> cc
>
> Subject
> RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites
>
>
>
>
>
>
> We have 5 remote offices, each with 1 unix file server that's
> backed up,
> and 0 IT staff.
> We back them up with a nightly incremental, a weekly
> synthetic, and a full
> once a month. (about 24 hours for a full ~20 Gigs)
> They get backed up to a small DSSU sitting on a couple
> concatenated local
> drives, and staged to tape daily.
>
> Works great.
>
> I agree, something like the tacit system would be nice.
>
> Paul
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
> Jonathan (Contractor)
> Sent: February 15, 2006 5:32 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites
>
> Speaking from experience here, if the remote site is a small
> office with
> 1-5 servers and a small library, DO NOT USE NETBACKUP!
>
> BackupExec works just fine, and it MUCH easier to manage!!
>
> We are considering purchasing devices from Tacit (
> http://www.tacitnetworks.com/) which not only replicate data
> back to our
> main datacenter to be backed up, but they also (supposedly)
> replicate user
> data (files) email / exchange DBs and Active Directory
> functions. Worst
> case scenario, if the local box goes down everyone grabs the "master"
> files from the WAN.
>
> Admittedly I'm not in the group that is testing this device, but I've
> heard nothing but rave reviews so far.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
> Cornely,
> David
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:16 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites
>
> You might want to consider something like Data Domain or a
> product like
> Riverbed.
> I like the idea of Riverbed (a WAN acceleration device),
> where you could
> bring your file servers back to the local site, backing them
> up there, and
> then your remote users would access the file server via the WAN, with
> Riverbed devices on each end. The idea is that this device
> makes the file
> server appear local to the remote users.
>
> Any way you cut it remote site backups are a pain and the
> fewer autonomous
> NBU environments you have the better off you will be.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of j.
> okabayashi
> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:44
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Remote Sites
>
> All,
> I just wanted to get an idea of what everyone is doing to back up any
> remote sites they may have. I am running NBU 5.1 MP4 on W2K3
> servers. I
> have a few sites with a single DC that is acting as file
> server, and print
> server. As of right now, these single servers are not getting
> backed up.
> Can NBU be used for this or should we look into something else? Any
> insight would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
>
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