Hi Ed
When a backup runs inside a file server like Celerra, Network Appliance or
other NAS device, the backup program used is provided by the NAS device;
said another way, since we can't install NetWorker inside a NAS device (it
is a 'closed system'), the backup program MUST be provided by the NAS
creator. Each NAS creator can (and, in my experience, does) provide a
backup program that is not compatible with the backup programs in the other
NAS devices. These backup programs are also not compatible with NetWorker
backup software, Retrospect software, or any other backup software product.
This is why a backup made on a NAS device must be restored to the same NAS
device.
And, yes, I know that the backup program embedded in NAS devices is often a
variant of tar or dump, and you might be able to get something to restore on
some other system. But I wouldn't want to 'bet my business' on this.
tl
Terry Lemons
CLARiiON Appliance Engineering
CLARiiON Application Solutions Integration
EMC²
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Email: Lemons_Terry AT emc DOT com
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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
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Behalf Of Coty, Edward
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:21 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] NDMP_Directed Restore
Man I just went through this. There is no way to do a directed recover from
EMC NAS Celerra to anything but another Celerra. Celerra uses a proprietary
OS called DART and you cannot recover to anything else. I had escalated to
the EMC Celerra engineers. I also asked that question here and I was told
the same thing again and again.
Ed Coty
Open Systems Storage Engineering, LCNA
973-533-2098
-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
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Behalf Of Fazil Saiyed
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:04 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] NDMP_Directed Restore
Hello,
I keep getting conflicting info on restoring NDMP backup, our plan is to
backup Cellara NAS ( EMC ) via NDMP using Legato 7.2.1, is it possible to
recover what is being backed up to say a HP proliant server ( file and block
level) through NDMP.
I am thinking in case of DR we wont have Cellara NAS offsite, what if we
cannot recover to alternate server\NAS.
Any experiance\comments\suggestions.
Disk is going to be EMC Clarion700.
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