To manage some real life problems that a customer may encounter while building a database, Sun users should consider looking into the blog of Ryan Arneson. In one of his potentially helpful blogs, he mentions how the Sun Fire X4500 can be used as a large disk cache for disk-based back ups. This can be done by using Sun StorageTek Enterprise backup software.

Two BigAdmin publications explaining how this can be done:

• Sun Fire X4500 Server as a Node for Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software 7.4

• Sun Fire X4500 as a Media Server for Symantec Veritas Netbackup 6.5

In these PDF files, readers may learn more about:

• Configuring the Disks.
• Creating Zpools.
• Configuring ZFS.
• Installing EBS Options.
• Configuring the EBS Storage Node.
• Configuring each ZFS File System as a Storage Device.
• Creating a Media Pool.
• Configuring Client Backups.

Here Arneson explains how using ZFS File System and Solaris 10 can help present a large amount of disk cache for faster restores and back ups. Readers and customers can also report their feed back directly to Arneson by going to the Wiki discussion pages.

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