On 07/04/12 11:34, Frank Swasey wrote:
> Carsten thank you for your response.  The issue here is that the
> NetApp has been removed from production and now we're being told that
> we have to maintain the ability to recover data for the next six
> years.  So, we're trying to find a way to satisfy the stated
> requirement to continue being able to recover the data without needing
> to keep the NetApp running for the next six years.
>
> Sounds like you are saying that NetWorker is not capable of doing that
> for us.
>

I think this is true. NDMP backups can only be read on an NDMP
tapeserver. Typically an NDMP tapeserver runs on a NetApp, a Celerra, or
other filer. A NetWorker server or storage node is NOT an NDMP tapeserver.

DSA backups are a different form of NDMP backup where the NDMP stream is
passed over the network and encapsulated in a NetWorker save set, but
these are not compatible with normal NDMP backups.

If you can reinstate the NetApp for a while you might be able to clone
the long term  NDMP backups to a DSA device, but I'm not 100% sure this
is possible.

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