Terry Lemons wrote:

Hi Michael

Without (yet) answering your questions directly, please consider taking a
look at the new features available in NetWorker V7.2.  There are HUGE
changes relating to NDMP, and I think you'll like the additional options
this release will give you.

That doesn't help me today. I asked if something worked a certain way
and your answer is upgrade to 7.2. I just want to know if I can use
NDMP across the LAN to backup an EMC Celerra, or does Celerra require
attached/SAN storage.

Also, According to experiences posted here 7.2 has some serious issues.
I need a stable platform. An upgrade in no light matter - moving from
6.x to 7.x means all the indexes have to be migrated to a new db format.

 - michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
On
Behalf Of Michael Coxe
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:52 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] New EMC Celerra - want to backup via NDMP

We received a new EMC Celerra NAS server and I was hoping
for some pointers at backing it up. We also have a Clarion
for SAN use, fyi. Before we start - I wasn't consulted on
the purchase, so what follows is the situation as handed
to me after the fact.

I read through the Celerra doc "Configuring NDMP Backups
with Celerra & Legato Networker", which is reasonably self
explanatory (except that I'm still becoming familiar with
EMC concepts and terminology).

What bothers me is that all the examples assume you have
your tape jukebox either connected to a Data Mover or SAN.
That's all well & good except my jukebox is attached to the
backup server via SCSI with current NDMP backups (Netapp)
running over the network.

Can I backup the Celerra as I do the Netapps, over the LAN?
Or am I looking at jukebox hw purchases to attach it to the
SAN or a Data Mover?

server
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Legato 6.1.4
Solaris 5.8

jukebox
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Spectralogic 12000, with drives split equally between
std SCSI devices off server & NDMP devices

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