Hey everyone,
I'm having a few issues implementing GFS to Tape. I have two tape libraries, where I have to store GFS monthly backups. Both libraries must store the same monthly backup (tapes on one library are taken off-site, and the others stay on-site).
At the moment, all VMware backup jobs create an Active Full backup on the 1st Saturday of each month (monthly GFS enabled for first week), and I wish to take this monthly backup to tapes in both libraries.
So, I made two GFS media pools, one for each library, and two GFS to tape jobs (targeted at each library) that run the same day when the source jobs create an Active Full backup.
This is extremely slow, as both libraries are trying to read from the same source at the same time. Moreso when one has to create a synthetic Full whenever the source backup job fails to create an active Full.
I'd rather not make a separate backup job (scheduled monthly) and take them to standard media pools in each library, as that was our old setup. If there's no better way of doing this, then I may have to failback to that setup.
I would appreciate any suggestions or comments on the matter.
I'm having a few issues implementing GFS to Tape. I have two tape libraries, where I have to store GFS monthly backups. Both libraries must store the same monthly backup (tapes on one library are taken off-site, and the others stay on-site).
At the moment, all VMware backup jobs create an Active Full backup on the 1st Saturday of each month (monthly GFS enabled for first week), and I wish to take this monthly backup to tapes in both libraries.
So, I made two GFS media pools, one for each library, and two GFS to tape jobs (targeted at each library) that run the same day when the source jobs create an Active Full backup.
This is extremely slow, as both libraries are trying to read from the same source at the same time. Moreso when one has to create a synthetic Full whenever the source backup job fails to create an active Full.
I'd rather not make a separate backup job (scheduled monthly) and take them to standard media pools in each library, as that was our old setup. If there's no better way of doing this, then I may have to failback to that setup.
I would appreciate any suggestions or comments on the matter.
Statistics: Posted by 479er — Jul 29, 2024 3:50 pm
