We have a NAS that was setup using W2K and basic disk. Yes, a very very large D: (500 GB) and E: (600 GB) (they're clustered). In order to backup these large drives, I used multi-streaming since there are a lot of high-level directories with most of the data behind them.
This seems to work fine most of the time. The problem comes when they failover. The directives for these servers use explicit addressing (i.e. on node 1 I use d:\* and on node 2 I use e:\*), so in a failover I know nothing about the new drive.
I had requested that the design include Dynamic Disks instead of basic disk. My understanding is this would then allow me to use the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive and each dynamic volume would be it's own stream. I also assume that in a failover, I would not worry about missing backup data from the failed-over system.
Are my assumptions correct? Our NAS people are considering reconfiguring and I have a chance to now set it right.
Thanks....
This seems to work fine most of the time. The problem comes when they failover. The directives for these servers use explicit addressing (i.e. on node 1 I use d:\* and on node 2 I use e:\*), so in a failover I know nothing about the new drive.
I had requested that the design include Dynamic Disks instead of basic disk. My understanding is this would then allow me to use the ALL_LOCAL_DRIVES directive and each dynamic volume would be it's own stream. I also assume that in a failover, I would not worry about missing backup data from the failed-over system.
Are my assumptions correct? Our NAS people are considering reconfiguring and I have a chance to now set it right.
Thanks....