Symantec NetBackup & ADESA

Presenter: Phillip Weingart

Back in the day… Founded in 1991 45 Remote sites In 2006…

NetBackup 5.1 MP4 L700 with 8 LTO1 drives Backed up 25TB a week 1 Master/Media server 200 servers in backup rotation Over 250 NetBackup policies

Today… 62 remote sites Sept 2009…

NetBackup 6.5.3.1 L700 with 9 LTO2 drives Backing up 110TB every two weeks 1 dedicated master and 4 media servers Two datacenters Today 425 servers in the backup rotation

Challenges…

Backup up remote sites One server per site Data ranges from 40GB to 150GB 6 to 9 MB pipe to each site

VMware backups Arrived and implemented Backed up at file level with NetBackup

NetBackup Policy Over abundance of policies

NAS Backups Large NFS environment

Infinity retention Legal wanted ALL backups held for infinity, late 2006 Catalog grow from 90GB to 1.2TB (online & archived)

Solutions…

Backup up remote sites Source based deduplication Backups went from days to hours Restore remote sites backups to VMware for DR and long

term retention VMware backups

Implemented NetBackup/VCB on dev/test/stage NetBackup Policy

Learned environment Reduced and consolidated policies

NAS Backups License & configure NDMP

Infinity retention Worked with Directors to allow 30 day retention on

dev/test/stage Worked with Directors to set standard retention on all DB

backups Working on more realistic retention on production

Current Projects… Bidirectional backups and DR all in one

Production datacenter 37.5TB per week Dev/Test/Stage datacenter 17.5TB per week All duplication done at dev/test/stage

datacenter

Other Projects… VCB/NetBackup in production datacenter

165 Production VMware Servers Simplify Environment

Reduce devices Disk

Migrating Master server to new hardware/OS Moving to dedicated master

NetBackup over the years…The good…

GUI based Vault Calendar scheduling Synthetic Full Open Storage EMM Database NetBackup Operations Manager NDMP

The bad… Move the Cancel All Jobs Java connect to each host when you look under ‘Host

Properties | Clients’ Synthetic status code 671

Other ways NetBackup has helped ADESA…

Servers blocking connections due to over abundance of processes

Applications team installing unlicensed software

Bad routers at remote sites

Improper port settings

Crashed servers

Firewall issues

What I would like to see in the future…

Scheduler..every time we upgrade more issues come

NDMP to disk

Better interface

Favorite Command?# bppllist <insert_exchange_policy_name> -L | grep “Type:”

Policy Type: MS-Exchange-Server (16)Data Mover Type: 2 Type: FULL SExchange (0) Incr Type: DELTA (0) Type: FULL SExchange (0) Incr Type: DELTA (0)

Thank you!

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