Hosting of Netbackup Media and Master Server
Updated: 22 May 2010 | 2 comments
Hi
We are planning our netbackup environment, one of the questions that we are facing is that can we host the Master and Media Server on a single machine? Is there any best practise that says that the master and the media server need to be seperate servers.
What will be the pitfalls if we have our master and media servers are hosted on a single server?
Any guidance will be valuable for me.
Regards
VPRO
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Yes you can, have a master
Yes you can, have a master server that is the media server.
I administer a smaller NetBackup environment that is just that.
1 Master Server with 1 local attached tape drive
15 Clients
Its all down to the amount of data your backing up, I/O, resources etc. How do you want to manage your backup traffic, over the LAN or LAN-free, this could also play a big part on all-in-one or separate. The master server stores information in databases.
Tip: Get overview/document your NBU environment. Run 'nbsu' and review the output.
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It all depends on the size of
It all depends on the size of your environment. We are supporting a large number of customers with a single Master/Media server.
I recommend you study the Planning and Performance Tuning Guide before making a decision:
exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/307083.pdf
Supporting Storage Foundation and VCS on Unix and Windows as well as NetBackup on Unix and Windows.
Handy NBU links
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