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    FlashBackup is supported for backups on RHEL with VxFS and VxVM filesystem and volume managers. While accelerator works for Unix/Linux filesystem backups, the files on this server may not be good candidates for deduplication. Dividing the backup selection into multiple streams by folder could improve backup speed on striped LUNs by allowing up to 4 simultaneous streams. FlashBackup does block-level backups of entire drives including unused space, but single file restores are possible.

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    FlashBackup is supported for backups on RHEL with VxFS and VxVM filesystem and volume managers. While accelerator works for Unix/Linux filesystem backups, the files on this server may not be good candidates for deduplication. Dividing the backup selection into multiple streams by folder could improve backup speed on striped LUNs by allowing up to 4 simultaneous streams. FlashBackup does block-level backups of entire drives including unused space, but single file restores are possible.

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    FlashBackup is supported for backups on RHEL with VxFS and VxVM filesystem and volume managers. While accelerator works for Unix/Linux filesystem backups, the files on this server may not be good candidates for deduplication. Dividing the backup selection into multiple streams by folder could improve backup speed on striped LUNs by allowing up to 4 simultaneous streams. FlashBackup does block-level backups of entire drives including unused space, but single file restores are possible.

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    FlashBackup is supported for backups on RHEL with VxFS and VxVM filesystem and volume managers. While accelerator works for Unix/Linux filesystem backups, the files on this server may not be good candidates for deduplication. Dividing the backup selection into multiple streams by folder could improve backup speed on striped LUNs by allowing up to 4 simultaneous streams. FlashBackup does block-level backups of entire drives including unused space, but single file restores are possible.

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    FlashBackup is supported on RHEL with VxFS/VxVM as filesytem and Volume manager.

    Accelerator is perfectly supported for filesystem backups on Unix/Linux, but the file types on this
    server are not good dedupe candidates.
    You may want to try it and see what the results are.

    If this filesystem is on a striped lun, you can also try to break the Backup Selection into multiple
    streams: select 'Allow multiple data streams' in policy attributes, then divide folders into separate
    streams, e.g:
    NEW_STREAM
    /mount/folder1
    /mount/folder2
    /mount/folder3
    /mount/folder4
    NEW_STREAM
    /mount/folder5
    /mount/folder6
    /mount/folder7
    /mount/folder8
    NEW_STREAM
    /mount/folder9
    ......
    NEW_STREAM
    /mount/folder#
    ......

    If Max Jobs per Client is set to 4 or more, MPX in STU and schedule is set to 4, the above backup
    selection will run 4 simultaneous streams from this filesystem and should backup at 4 times the
    speed seen before.(See 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0' topic in NetBackup 7 Snapshot Client (CL):

    Flashbackup and Flashbackup-Windows do raw device backups - they tend to be very fast as they
    back up at block level and backup the entire drive

    So if you have a 50TB drive with 15 TB used you backup will be 50TB!
    You can however restore single file data from these backups - I would advise having a moderate
    fragment size for you storage unit - say 5000MB - so that when seeking a single file from the back
    up it can be located easily

    Also test restores from the backup as very large backups can have issues

    Two other differences are that you cannot do the system drive (C drive) using this type of backup
    and the backup selection list is different .. A windows policy would say D:\ but a Flashback up-
    Windows policy will say \\.\D:
    1).Now I created policy with FlashBackup type.
    2).selected Perform snapshot backups Option as NBU_Snap.(.And here I specified cache
    location.) Except nbu_snap ,others are givin error. So I choosed nbu_snap
    3). And also specified cache device on client settings :
    Host Properties > Clients > Client Properties dialog > UNIX Client > Client Settings, -> Default
    cache device path for snapshots
    4). Backup selection is like this:
    CACHE=/dev/rdsk/c0t600A0B800038A3910000078D4D4A6072d0s0
    /dev/rdsk/c2t2d0s0

    You have selected auto and yet your system has no way of creating a snapshot for you to back up.
    When you choose auto NetBackup will use nbu_snap (Appendix A of the admin guide)

    You need to select a cache location for it to work - see this tech note as a starting point:
    If it is not suitable for your system then you need to select a suitable snapshot method.

    Please note: Flashbackup require you to specify the block device e.g. /dev/vx/dsk/data_dg/{somth
    ing}

    You need to find a system that is using 'normal' Solaris disk management (not SVM/ZFS) or else
    VxVM with a usable, unused CACHE partition.

    And cache must not be specified in Backup Selection if 'Perform Snapshot backup' is selected in
    Policy Attributes.

    See this extract from Snapshot Client manual:

    Note: CACHE entries are allowed only when the policy’s Perform snapshot backups option is
    deselected. If Perform snapshot backups is selected, NetBackup attempts
    to back up the CACHE entry and the backup fails.

    And also:
    UNIX only: if you selected nbu_snap or VxFS_Snapshot as the snapshot method, specify a raw
    partition as cache, in either of these ways:
    a) Use the Host Properties node of the Administration Console to specify the default cache device
    path for snapshots. Click Host Properties >
    Clients, select the client, then Actions>Properties, UNIX Client>Client
    Settings.
    b) Use the Snapshot Client Options dialog to specify the cache.See “How to enter the cache” on
    page 149.

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