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Not sure if this is helpful but we write all data to the VTL and then
we apply new retentions via a script at beginning of month. On about
the 15th we begin to move data off of the VTL to a monthly ...

That isn't so either...

You can just license one node and do all your backups from that node...

For instance we have 5 node RAC cluster and we have 1 node licensed for NMO
for prod backup and o ...

That was a great read, thank you very much for providing those results and
plopping them into a well formatted and commented document.

Good luck on getting EMC to support OpenSource databases, wou ...

Well for what its worth I consider SAN 2 SAN replication with snapshots such
as RecoverPoint to be the best DR "Bare Metal Recovery" solution for our
environment. Then after that anything ...

I can't figure out how to get the MSSQL recovery to fire via SSID's
though... Do you know how to do this?

Alec

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Venkat Tudi <venkat.tudi < at > gmail.com> ...

http://pastebin.org/114774

<http://pastebin.org/114774>Here is the script we use...

On line 12 you'd want to update the pool's to the appropriate pools... if
only one pool simply remove o ...

You can use the command "nsrim" to force NetWorker to do its routine that
will mark tapes as recycleable if you're short have recently marked a bunch
of save sets as recycleable.

I find ...

Hmm.. your situation has some uniqueness to it.. I'd keep harping on
isolating each components... I'm curious what your total throughput is
between your two servers, have you tried just simply doi ...

In either case please read below, I've seen the effects of this first hand
and it is easy to see if its causing your performance degradation:

From:
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ ...

Ok so how are you accessing the Thumper as an adv_file over NFS or as an
iSCSI LUN?

Have you been able to clock your read speed off of the Thumper through to
the T1000? If you can write through ...

Yaron,
What version of Solaris are you running on the Thumper, update 8 is
significantly faster than say update 3? Do you have any SSD's in the
thunper to handle L2ARC?

What kind of performance ...

That's great, glad to help!

Alec

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 9:26 PM, John Brekelbaum <jbrekelbaum < at > gmail.com>wrote:

Alec-
Thanks, that seemed to do the trick - appreciate it.
Cheer ...

Anyone here an MSSQL / NetWorker export?

Here is our problem...

We're bakcing up some instances with thousands and thousands of databases
every 4 hours making our indexes quite large. As a res ...

I'm pretty sure its the "Idle device timeout" that we set on our jukeboxes
to clear the media out of the drive, and we did this to ensure that the
shared NDMP drives are available as soon ...

John,
Try going into the Jukebox properties via NMC and changing the "timers"
tab. There should be settings like "eject timer" or "idle timer" try
changing them both ...