Implementing Backup and Recovery: The Readiness Guide for the Enterprise

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the first steps of setting up a backup and recovery strategy using a backup product. We selected NetBackup from VERITAS Software. We first looked at the specific architecture used by NetBackup:

• Client

• Media server

• Master server

• Global Data Manager

With this background, we could look at some of the specific system requirements for backup servers. This involved looking at the following:

• CPU requirement guidelines

• Memory requirement guidelines

• I/O adapter specifications

This information coupled with the following considerations gave us enough information to move to the next phase of design-determining media requirements:

• Amount of data

• Location of data

• Speed of networks

• Backup window

In the next chapter, we look at how we evaluate storage requirements, including tape drives and libraries.