I'll say that the Sun cool thread servers work really well for a
backup server, we're using a T5240 here.
Alec
On 7/24/09, jee <jee AT eresmas DOT net> wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Both Unix and Windows servers can backup NDMP clients (e.g. Celerra,
> NetApp).
>
> Sorry but I don't understand what you mean by "Unix clients with ndmp jobs".
> If the clients are Unix hosts, then the server is backing up Unix clients,
> and hence, they are not related to NDMP.
>
> On another subject, moving a NetWorker Server from Unix to windows can be
> much trouble. The media db cannot be migrated from Unix to Windows and this
> means that
> either
> (1) the old server is kept alive for awhile in order to do recovers of old
> backups
> or
> (2) the existing tapes are scanned on the new server to populate the new
> media db with the old backups (permissions and blocksize issues will happen
> but can be resolved
> but scanning tapes would take too long.)
>
> I hope tjhis helps.
> jee
>
>
>
> On Friday 24 July 2009 6:00:06 pm James T Proctor wrote:
>> We have a Networker Sun server that we need to retire. Our Networker
>> administrator is very experienced with Windows. We have numerous ndmp job
>> configured and running on our Sun server. My question to the forum is will
>> a Networker Windows server backup Unix clients with ndmp jobs?
>>
>> Jim Proctor
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