Suggested Backup software for Teamsite

I am looking for a good backup solution for my Teamsite W2K server.
What I am looking for are backup products that other users are using to backup TeamSite, and the successes that have had with that product.

I found one product V2i Protector, but when installed it breaks the Teamsite Y:drive. This I confirmed this on two of our development Teamsite servers.
What I would like to have a product name that Teamsite Admins are using and have had good success with.

Phil

Find more posts tagged with

Comments

Migrateduser

Hi Phill,

Any commercial product should be able to backup the b/s. However you should never backup the Y: drive (or iwmnt on unix) directly. The store itself should be backed up and should be Frozen during the entire backup procedure. All that would be required is a start and finish script. The start script freezes the store and the finish script unfreezes once the job is complete.

As your store increases in size it can become a problem to have your server Frozen for so long. Below is an article from Sys Admin detailing how they overcame this problem on Unix. They freeze the store, take a filesystem snapshot, unfreeze the filesystem, and then backup the snapshot.

Off-Host Backup Processing with Veritas FlashSnap
(http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9426/sam0412a/0412a.htm)

-Eric

philipcz

Thanks for the reply
Any commercial product except one V2i; it will break your y: drive.
This is what I am experimenting with now. As a long time Teamsite user, I am well aware of the Y: drive. I do not know how may times I had to ask customers to not run virus protection on the y: drive because it is not a real drive. i
The problem here at this site is the customer is looking for a cheap solution.
A product like veritas is out of the question.
The good thing about this is that I can downlaod trial versions and run them on my dev box to see how the stack up

Phil

Migrateduser

One product which is not a real backup software, but does provide nice alternative to backup is "DoubleTake". It's a great tool to do real time sync up of the backing store content to another server with its agent installed. After the mirror is set up, it will only take minutes to do the final sync up when the TeamSite service is stopped.

This provides a very nice alternate for companies without expensive SANs storage to allow TeamSite service only to be down for a short period of time and then you can use what ever backup software to back up the mirror on the other server, however long it takes. This software has been rather reliable for my client with about 30Gb of backing store.

Migrateduser

Yeah, $$ is an issue with big products like NetBackup.

If I was in your situation I'd first try to figure out why it's breaking my store. There really should be no reason that happens. It indicates to me that the files are probably not restoring with the same owners, rights, and privs. And either open a support call with V2i or make that the case to management to spend a little more $$.

-Eric

philipcz

with V2i, it breaks the Y: drive the minute you install V2i
It runs as a service, and once that service is up and running, the Y:drive will show Y:local disk not Y:IFS Drive.
Turn off the V2i service and ithe Y Smiley Very Happy

rive will come back corretly. You can not event get to a point where you can backup any files.
I made the suggestion to open a service call on V2i, but that fell on deaf ears.

Phil

NathansDIS

I know this probably doesn't meet your cost requirement, but for the good of the order, we are successfully using Tivoli Storage Manager to back up our TeamSite backing stores on W2K server. Of course, we use a iwfreeze before and after the backup and exclude the Y: drive.

-nathan

Migrateduser

we use EDM - and as the others mentioned schedule .bat scripts to freeze and unfreeze

-------------------
World of Warcraft  Illidan/Horde