Hi All, I’m in a bit of a predicament here and I am appealing for a bit of advice and help. I have inherited a rather lovely Netbackup issue.
We have a Netbackup 7.6 server at a customer site. The Data it backs up doesn’t actually change that much but it currently holds about 2.8 TB Data (mostly BMR data). We are obliged to hold a copy of this backup data as an "Offsite" backup, but due to reasons I can't go into the link between the sites wasn't set up for over a year.
Once the link was in place, We initially set up a SLP policy to get the Data to our organisation but this maxed out the 10 mbps link 24/7 for about 10 days and our customer asked us to throttle the traffic (which I believe can’t be done with SLPs) or turn it off. We turned it off.
Our problem is this initial “First Sync” of the Data which I guess is rather large at 2 TB + I guess once that has been done the performace shoud be OK due to Netbackups clever dedupe technology. We were wondering if we could perform some sort of pre seeding of that Backup customer Data to our site.
I was wondering if this is achievable using the following method.
- Install Netbackup 7.6 on laptop with Server 2008 R2 and a Large USB Hard Drive (3-4 TB)
- Go to customer site, add NetBackup Laptop as a Trusted Master server / replication target.
- Duplicate data from Customer Netbackup server to Netbackup Laptop using SLP. (change backup polices back to standard from SLP after finished).
- Ship NetBackup Laptop back to our site.
- Somehow get the Data from NetBackup laptop into our NetBackup system. (unsure about this part).
- Configure SLPs on polices at remote customer site to replicate to our NetBackup server, in theory this shouldn’t hammer the link 24/7 as it will only be replicating data that has changed.
Perhaps I'm overthinking this, perhaps there is another way. I'm open to any suggestions, surley I can't have been the only one in this situation.
Unfortunatly beefing up the Link is out of the question (yes I have asked).
Traffic shaping using network equipment is also out (due to the way the VPN tunnel works apparatly).
The server at the customer site is running NBU 7.6.03 and so is the Netbackup server we are running at our site. We are only using disk storage, no tapes are involved.
Thanks in advance for any input.