We do exactly what Wanda is suggesting as well. It works great, with the caveat that the node holding the storage (the target of asnode=) needs to have MAXNUMMP high enough to accomodate all the simultaneous backups/restores going on.
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 06:29:35PM +0000, Prather, Wanda wrote: > If you are already using a backup box with multiple nodes, you already have a > system that works for you. > Depends on how you want the data stored, and how you want to do restores. > I like using PROXY relationships for this case: > > I have customer(s) with many TB of EMC NAS shares. > They want the help desk to do the restores for the many users on those NAS > shares. > > We use multiple client machines, not just one, to do the backups. > Each machine/scheduler service has a TSM node names and is attached to a > schedule. > But they all have proxy authority and do their backups using > "asnode=ONENASNAME". > > So they each back up a number of shares, but all the filespaces are stored > under ONENASNAME. > That way when the helpdesk goes to do a restore, they start the client with > "asnode=ONENASNAME". > They see all the shares/filespaces from one nodename and can do restores for > any of them. > > But another big plus is that as the shares grow, if we need to take a machine > that is doing 10 of the shares and split it across 2 machines doing 5 each, > we do that and the location of the filespaces doesn???t change, and the > helpdesk doesn't have to hunt around or have a chart to find things. > > Useful in this setup to maintain sanity for the help desk. > Wanda > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Zoltan Forray > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 1:06 PM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Isilons with TSM > > Thanks for the feedback. We agree on EMC - they like to sell hardware...... > Of course they support DataDomain! > > No, I have never setup a "proxy relationship" - anything you can offer about > this process would be helpful! > > At this point, when it comes to any Windows users of the Isilon, we will have > to go the "setup a dumb server to act at the backup box for the CIFS shares" > like we do with lots of other EMC storage/mounts (we have one right now > running 40+ TSM node/clients purely for CIFS backups). As for *NIX > users/mounts, no idea how they want proceed on that. > > Z > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Prather, Wanda <wanda.prat...@icfi.com> > wrote: > > > It's awful. > > Only saving grace in my case is that the data is mostly images and > > doesn't change much. > > > > I assume you've had experience setting up proxy relationships - use > > many proxy machines to back up the individual shares on the Isilon, so > > you can have them all working at once. > > Then back up over NFS or CIFS. > > > > I can't believe EMC is still so far behind the times that they offer > > no intelligent way to back up their NAS devices (e.g. Netapp Snapdiff > > or V7Unified imbedded TSM client). > > But then, they tell their customers that the appropriate thing to do > > is buy a second Isilon and replicate. > > > > I have never understood how that is appropriate - manual deletes and > > directory corruption replicate, too. > > > > W > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf > > Of Zoltan Forray > > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 11:00 AM > > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > > Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up Isilons with TSM > > > > Anyone have experience backing up an EMC Isilon and can share > > war-stories, methods, etc? > > > > -- > > *Zoltan Forray* > > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > > BigBro / Hobbit / Xymon Administrator > > Virginia Commonwealth University > > UCC/Office of Technology Services > > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations > > will never use email to request that you reply with your password, > > social security number or confidential personal information. For more > > details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html > > > > > > -- > *Zoltan Forray* > TSM Software & Hardware Administrator > BigBro / Hobbit / Xymon Administrator > Virginia Commonwealth University > UCC/Office of Technology Services > zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 > Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never > use email to request that you reply with your password, social security > number or confidential personal information. For more details visit > http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
