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Avamar & dedicated replication vlan
When using an Avamar Gen4 grid, you can choose to use a dedicated bond for the replication traffic or you can choose to share this replication traffic with your backup connections. Inside this post, I will explain how the replication … Continue reading
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Adding nodes to Avamar 6.1 seems easier
In previous posts, I showed how easy it is to configure advanced networking on new Avamar nodes without the need to use dpnnetutil. When you upgrade your Avamar grid to Avamar 6.1 there are some things you need to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged /etc/sysconfig/network, 6.1, avamar, backup, balancing, bond0, csv, dpnnetutil, dpnnetutil.xml, EMC, eth0, eth2, grid, ifcfg-bond0, interface, internal, maintenance, schedule, subinterface, Switch, switches, tagging, vlan, window
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Avamar 6.0.1-65 Bug in adding nodes
This week I was adding Avamar 7.8TB nodes to existing Avamar Data Store Gen 4 Grids and I discovered a bug in adding and starting the new nodes. After adding and starting the nodes, the clients were redirected to the … Continue reading
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Avamar trunking: Avamar on a stick
A nice feature of the Avamar Datastore Generation 4, is that you can use trunks to connect multiple VLAN’s to the same Avamar backup port. When installing a fresh Avamar, you will do this using dpnnetutil, but when you need … Continue reading
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Installing Avamar Single Node Gen 4
The first Avamar grid I installed was an Avamar Gen 3 grid with different storage nodes connected to each other and an Avamar version 5 installation on top of it. When searching online for installation guides, there is not really … Continue reading
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Avamar 5: Tricking root to root replication
When using Avamar 5, you have two supported options for replicating your backup data to another Avamar grid. We call them root to root replication and selective replication. Both methods have some downsides regarding flexibility. Besides this, Avamar 5 has … Continue reading