NetBackup Supports NetApp Native dump backup using NDMP.  We've been doing
this for almost 2 years now.  There are issues I agree, but if we stay with
supported and tested platforms it works just fine.

An imbedded NBU module is unlikely since NetApp is such a thin client.
However NDMP is being improved day by day to make restores easier

As for HSM, that is up to NetApp to design, either by putting a HSM module
into the OS or making a DMAPI compliant File System.

Hope this helps,

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Steingruebl [mailto:steingra AT pprd.abbott DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 7:24 AM
To: Rob Worman
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] HSM and NetApp? 


I've been trying to find an answer to this for some time.  Ideally I've
wanted 
NetApp to include several things in Data OnTap.

1. a native veritas netbackup client.  Sure would make it a lot easier to
back 
them up if they supported it somehow.

2. HSM support.  Even if I have to stick an optical or tape robot behind a 
group of filers, and they do the HSM in their own format, it would be better

than having to move any filesystems I might want to archive onto a platform 
that can support HSM.  Not sure if this is going to happen, though the more
of 
us that bug them, the better.

All in all, I wouldn't count on it though. Looks like we can't even get NDMP

to work all the time between revisions when dealing with NetBackup.


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