[Veritas-bu] Vaulting images from disk = slow tape speed, ideas???
2009-07-28 15:27:51
> We backup about 16Tb of data over the course of a weekend. We used to run NBU
> 6.0 MP2 with four LTO3 drives fiber connected. We recently changed to NBU
> 6.5.3 and a disk to disk appliance... we now vault from the disk images (DSU)
> to tape for offsite storage and DR. By my estimates the drives used to copy
> at roughly 62 Gb/Hr multiplexed. So we would be finished over the course of a
> weekend. Now that we are vaulting from disk to tape, the tape drives cannot
> multiplex from disk to tape. My vault jobs take extremely long to finish and
> if a drive is busy when the vault job begins then it only runs on the
> remaining available tape drives (which for us, we have two tape storage
> groups with two drives in each one based on what master/media they belong to)
> so when something happens to one drive I end up copying images for half of my
> environment to one tape drive. The drive non-multiplexed are copying at about
> 30-35 Gb /Hr. Moving to a disk replication would solve this but my DR plan
is a cold site so I have to keep tape. Is there anything I can do to improve
this performance?
>
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> This is exactly what I found, and SLP (storage lifecycle policies) are my
> solution.
> You set up the SLP to backup to disk pool A as step one, and have a second
> step that copies that from disk to tape pool B with your normal retention.
> Essentially you get a one tape drive vault process, and no longer lose your
> efficiency.
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> So what I understand you are doing is using the SLP to get around the
> boundaries of tape pools being assigned to a given media, this way all the
> data gets backed up by a pool of all of the tapes as one group? I assume
> vault is the underlying technology but the SLP is just the layer at which you
> configure and run it all. Do you need the Shared Storage Option for this?
> In your experience does the data get split across all of the drives evenly?
> If one tape finishes its list of imiages does it just sit there or does NBU
> find more data for it to backup? (similarly to how the resource manager would
> do when we used to copy straight to tape)?
> I guess this could help keep my drives spinning, won't do much for my speed
> issue but it seems like it could help with the data allocation... thanks for
> your advice.
>
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