A day in a life with Netbackup and its beloved robots.
This is an exciting time at the moment with a number of cool projects. One is which to minimise the number of media tapes we use and the other is to reduce the backup window. The answer, disk de-duplication! I’ll be looking at Symantec, HP StoreOne and Quantum offering this service, what features it offers…
The Background: Our beloved library failed a few weeks ago when the finger picker was unable to pick tapes. It was a good 5 years old and served us well. We would normally replace the library with an Quantum i500 or i80, but as this served a smaller data center and I found another scalar…
Project Introduction Today I am working to find out if it is possible to migrate Netbackup from one server to another using a replication of the data volume where netbackup is installed. We also like to upgrade to Windows 2008 X64 from Windows 2003 (x86). The reason for this unsupported method of netbackup migration is…