Offline Backup over the Network
Hello All,
we have recently upgraded our network humming along 10gb across the board and we're curious as to how or if it is ok to backup cache over smb or to another network drive of that sort. instead of writing directly to local disk. (vmware environment)
Most companies doing their backup over the network. It depends on how big your database, and you should estimate, how quickly it will be in your case theoretical and in practice. Unfortunately, on some old versions of Caché, in some cases there are some lack of performance and backup may work not so fast as expected. We had such issue with 2012.2.
And a little hint, to do backup over the network, Caché instance should have an access. And if your Caché works on Windows, you should change user in settings for Caché Service, to some domain user, which will have access to write.
Anything else to watchout for??? yeah we are going to use a few test environments to start of course, but weren't sure if there were any situations cache particulary wouldn't work wtih or whats optimal. basically we are going cache backup ---> network drive ---> tape.
thanks for the info
Hi Shawn;
Your method you mentioned works perfectly well. I have used it a lot, am predominantly Linux and my most preferred share is over 'nfs'. Ensure you have write permissions to that drive and that there is no network performance impact when it is running between the two servers, but with the speed you mentioned the impact is insignificant. The other advantage is that the write I/O will be on the other server.
Regards;
Anzelem.
Hi, Have you investigated alternatives to cache online backup - Cache external backup? Eg third-party backup solutions that use snapshots?