Hello,
I am relatively new to the Netbackup world and I am working on migrating our Netbackup infra from Solaris (v10) to Linux (RHEL7). We were running Netbackup v7.6.0.2 before and I upgraded it to the latest version v7.7.3.
I had few questions before I proceed with the migration. I looked around for answers probably couldn’t find the exact answers for the below questions (or probably I didn’t search enough L).
We have 90TB of JBODs available to our media server (for staging the data written to tapes) and 14TB in our master server (for the catalog).
- Currently we use ZFS as a local filesystem and the data disks are in ZFS pool.
So, in RHEL7 world what would be the recommended:
- Local filesystem? (I believe XFS). I am thinking of creating local partitions in XFS.
- Preferred software RAID (MDRAID or Megaraid or anything else)? I am planning to go with RAID 1.
- I will take a full Catalog backup before I start the migration and then attempt a restore after installing Netbackup 7.7.3 in Linux. Is that the right approach or is there a better way out for the migration?
Also, I believe this full catalog backup will hold a complete copy of my Policies/Storage Groups/Media pools/Tape Drive configuration etc. Right?
- [Little out of scope from Netbackup] After I migrate the servers to Linux, should I re-configure the tape drives as devices from the OS perspective?
Thanks for your help.
-Ram