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One recent installation for a major Canadian bank, consisted of identical hardware and software components at both Head Office and the Disaster Recovery (DR) site. The Head Office site consisted of a Sun Fire V880 master backup server with 4x1.2 Ghz US-III CPUs , 8GB memory, and 218GB of internal Fibre-channel storage for hosting the Symantec NetBackup's catalogue information. The backup server was dual connected to an 8 port F/C 2GB switch which, in turn, was connected to a StorageTek L700 Enterprise Tape Library with three LTO-2 tape drives and 228 slots. Symantec NetBackup DataCentre 5.0 was installed on each backup server and configured as a Master/Media server. Backup agents (up to 25) comprised of a mixture of Windows and Solaris systems, with online backup agents used for Exchange and Oracle on Solaris.
At the end of the process, Kanatek provided the bank with a blueprint architecture document that will be used by the Bank to roll the enterprise backup solution out across the enterprise beyond the initial implementation. The document covered the following areas:
- Classified servers with similar backup requirements and performance characteristics
- Documented the Bank backup and restore SLAs for the class of servers defined above
- Analysed backup and restore requirements per class of servers and recommended a backup and restore strategy, with a list of software and hardware options in order to implement each strategy
- Analysed possible backup and restore bottlenecks and limitations (network bandwidth, drive speed, SAN or disk I/O bandwidth, client performance, data volume size, database size, etc.) and recommended the appropriate strategy to overcome or reduce the impact of these limitations
- Defined a process that can be followed when adding a new server to the backup infrastructure. The process guided an administrator to choose the best backup strategy for a server based on certain backup and restore SLAs and performance criteria
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