Designing your backup system
| Article:HOWTO56078 | | | Created: 2011-07-25 | | | Updated: 2012-01-24 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO56078 |
The planning and configuration examples that follow are based on standard and ideal calculations. Your numbers can differ based on your particular environment, data, and compression rates.
After an analysis of your backup requirements, you can begin designing your backup system. The table below summarizes the steps to completing a design for your backup system.
Table: Steps to design your backup system
Step | Action | Description |
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Step 1 | Calculate the required data transfer rate for your backups. | Calculate the rate of transfer your system must achieve to complete a backup of all your data in the time available. See How to calculate the required data transfer rate for your backups. |
Step 2 | Calculate how long it takes to back up to tape or disk | Determine what kind of tape or disk technology meets your needs. See How to calculate the time required to back up to tape. See About how to calculate how long it will take to back up to conventional disk storage. See About how to calculate how long it will take to back up to deduplicating disk storage. |
Step 3 | Calculate the required number of tape drives | Determine how many tape drives are needed. |
Step 4 | Calculate the required data transfer rate for your network(s) | For backups over a network, you must move data from your client(s) to your media server(s) fast enough to finish backups within your backup window. See How to calculate the required data transfer rate for your network(s). |
Step 5 | Calculate the size of your NetBackup image database | Determine how much disk space is needed to store your NetBackup image database. See How to calculate the size of your NetBackup image database. |
Step 6 | Calculate the size of the NetBackup relational database (NBDB) | Determine the space required for NBDB. See How to calculate the size of the NetBackup relational database (NBDB). |
Step 7 | Calculate media needed for full and incremental backups | Determine how many tapes are needed to store and retrieve your backups. See How to calculate the media needed for full and incremental backups. |
Step 8 | Calculate the size of the tape library needed to store your backups | Determine how many robotic library tape slots are needed to store all your backups. See How to calculate the size of the tape library needed to store your backups. |
Step 9 | Design your master server | Use the previous calculations to design and configure a master server. |
Step 10 | Estimate the number of master servers needed | The following topic lists some considerations for estimating the number of master servers. |
Step 12 | Estimate the number of media servers needed | The following topic contains guidelines for estimating how many media servers are needed. |
Step 13 | Design your OpsCenter server | The following topic contains links to OpsCenter information. |
Step 14 | Review a summary of these steps | The following is a condensed overview. |
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