Yes, mounting the share to a server is the only way, but it has issues
such as performance, permissions and acl restores.

Why are you trying to avoid NDMP? License cost? If you don't want to
hang drivers off the NAS server or share them via DDS, then you can use
DSA to backup via NDMP over the network.

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of mark wragge
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 12:37 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] backup of nas shares...

Is the backup of NAS shares supported by networker? What methods are
available to backup an NFS or CIFS share presented to the network by a
NAS device (objective is to avoid use of NDMP)?
   
  Is it necessary to mount the share to a server and then backup the
share using the client that has the mounted share?
   
  Thanks, Mark Wragge

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