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stu52

stu52
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article comment 04 Oct 2011
stu52 commented on: Has disk killed off tape?
Teiva-boy The "garbage collection" or "cleaning" that you mention above is not something that will eliminate the bit-rot problem.  Bit rot is something that will occur with any spinning media (disk).  Furthermore, ...
article comment 14 Sep 2011
stu52 commented on: Has disk killed off tape?
It has to do with the physics of recording magnetic data.  See W. Curtis Preston's article on this here: ...
article comment 17 Aug 2011
stu52 commented on: Has disk killed off tape?
Well, all I can say is this.  I am working at a company where there are several sites, but the main site does just over 500TB/month and it is behind in the replication to one of the other sites.  The problem is that the current system ...
article comment 15 Aug 2011
stu52 commented on: Has disk killed off tape?
@rob, there's a reason why people use a DataDomain over JBOD....it's called deduplication.  But, if you are going to use that at your primary and remote site you have to be aware of the expense.  And, in CraigV's case, it ...
article comment 12 Aug 2011
stu52 commented on: Has disk killed off tape?
Craig, OK....so you want to go "tapeless" and use DataDomain?  That would mean paying double for the disk (one at your primary site and again at your remote replication destination) PLUS paying for a WAN link that is big enough to ...
discussion comment 12 Jan 2011
stu52 commented on: How large is your SharePoint farm?
I heard from a Microsoft engineer who works on SharePoint that the largest farm that he knows of is 25TB and it is very difficult to back up.  The next largest SharePoint farm that he knew about was only 7TB. I would still very much like to ...
discussion comment 07 Jan 2011
stu52 commented on: How large is your SharePoint farm?
From what I've been able to scope out with Google searches, many sources (including Microsoft) say that a "large" SharePoint farm is one with content data in excess of 5TB.  I still think that it would be interesting to get a ...
discussion comment 06 Jan 2011
stu52 commented on: How large is your SharePoint farm?
I just got an email from another forum member that his SharePoint farm is only 500GB.  So far we have relatively modest sized farms which leads me to believe that there are no problems with backups completing in a timely manner.
discussion comment 05 Jan 2011
stu52 commented on: How large is your SharePoint farm?
In my opinion based upon very limited data, I believe that the design of a SharePoint environment does not take backup into consideration at all.  In order to backup a SharePoint farm using the file list that I mentioned in the starting ...
New forum discussion 05 Jan 2011
stu52 posted: How large is your SharePoint farm?
I need a solution I'm trying to get a feel for what others are doing with their SharePoint backups.  I've been reading about issues with SharePoint backups that have been resolved and I think that the majority of the ba
discussion comment 07 Dec 2010
stu52 commented on: Scheduling SQL backups?
If you absolutely still want to have NetBackup control the SQL backups, then, yes, use separate policies and use calendar scheduling for the automatic schedules. I was just stating my preference for giving control of the SQL backups over to the ...
discussion comment 06 Dec 2010
stu52 commented on: Scheduling SQL backups?
I'm not a SQL DBA, but I have worked with them on this issue.  There is a scheduler that is part of SQL server plus they have the option of using the NetBackup GUI on the client to run their SQL backups.  In addition they can run ...
discussion comment 06 Dec 2010
stu52 commented on: Scheduling SQL backups?
As I mentioned in my first reply, if you only use the Application schedule that is automatically created when you set up the policy (type MS-SQL-Server), then the SQL DBA's will control when the policy is run and NOT NetBackup master server ...
discussion comment 06 Dec 2010
stu52 commented on: Scheduling SQL backups?
I would dump the automatic schedules and just use the Application schedules in separate policies with different retentions.  Remember the Application schedules will be run from the SQL server and can be scheduled by the SQL DBA's with ...
discussion comment 16 Nov 2010
stu52 commented on: Exclude list doesn't work
What if you set up the exclude list for the cluster name insead of the node name?  Is the client name for the policy set to the node name or the cluster name? I would think that if you are backing up a cluster, you would use the cluster ...
discussion comment 15 Nov 2010
stu52 commented on: Problem with Sharepoint 2007 granular restore
Restoring a SharePoint site from a GRT backup can be done at least one of two ways: Delete the site on the Sharepoint farm and then do the restore. Restore the site to a separate recovery farm. I can't help with the Chrome/theme ...
discussion comment 18 Oct 2010
stu52 commented on: SharePoint 2007 & NBU - please share your stories.
Using 6.5.4 we discovered that you cannot restore a web application from a non-GRT backup.  We were not able to test whether or not you could do a restore from a GRT backup until we upgraded to 7.0.1. (For clarification, our environment was ...
discussion comment 16 Aug 2010
stu52 commented on: SharePoint 2007 & NBU - please share your stories.
According to Symantec, if you are going to do GRT backups, you cannot use dedupe storage devices (like Data Domain) as a disk storage unit for SharePoint backup policies.  We were told that this is not supported.  Although there is ...
discussion comment 09 Jun 2010
stu52 commented on: Command line (UNIX/AIX) for deleting client in multiple policies
I posted a script here and you asked questions about it.  Have you tried it? 
discussion comment 02 Jun 2010
stu52 commented on: Quick Sharepoint and Netbackup 6.5 question
Make sure that all of the SharePoint clients are using the same version of NBU as the master and media servers.  We had a problem like that, but when we made sure all the versions were the same, it worked.

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