You'd have better luck with a $20 dollar bill in Vegas.  ;)

Can you even configure two media servers that are pointed to the same robot
drive? I didn't think this was possible without multi-hosted drive support
(SSO). If you make it a multi-hosted drive, then its not gonna be able to
lock the drive for Netapp anyway (not supported with SSO).


Kevin Trotman
Storage Management Group
Phone: 817-317-8048
Cell: 817-307-0451
email: Kevin_Trotman AT afcc DOT com
            (Trotman, Kevin)


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:57 PM
To: kas AT veritas DOT com
Cc: Veritas-bu List
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Veritas-bu] NetApp backups and multi drives]


I understand that SSO is not available from Veritas for ndmp yet, this
is technically not SSO.  Netapp filers see all the tape drives attached
to the library anyway, whether you configure them in NBU or not.  So the
question is this:  Can I configure NBU to see all drives for all filers?

The only issue I can come up with is if NBU causes the filer to
periodically go out and check the drive status.  If that's the case then
it could be problematic to have several filers checking drive status on
the same drive at the same time.  However, if NBU does not cause that,
then a filer could use all the drives it is configured for in NBU as
long as no backup overlaps.

Anyone see another issue with this scenario?

Thanks.

~JK

Karen Schoenbauer wrote:
> 
> It looks like he is trying to do SSO for NDMP.  SSO does not support NDMP
> attached drives.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Jeff
> > Kennedy
> > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:22 PM
> > To: Veritas-bu List
> > Subject: [Fwd: [Veritas-bu] NetApp backups and multi drives]
> >
> >
> > No respondees so far.  Is everyone waiting for a summary or is noone
> > doing this at all?
> >
> > Jeff Kennedy wrote:
> > >
> > > I have 4 filers connected via fiber channel to an ATL P6000.  There
are
> > > 5 drives dedicated to ndmp, 1 drive per filer for the first 3 filers
and
> > > the 4th has 2.  Each filer sees all the drives but only one (or 2)
> > > drives are configured in NetBackup for each filer.
> > >
> > > Question:
> > >
> > >         Why can't I configure NetBackup for 4 drives per filer
> > as long as they
> > > never backup at the same time?
> > >
> > > I know DDA for ndmp is not available but I wonder if the above would
> > > work since the filers all see the other drives anyway.
> > >
> > > I am running Ontap 6.x, qlogic fcal cards, Vixel fiber switch to
P6000.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > =====================
> > Jeff Kennedy
> > Unix Administrator
> > AMCC
> > jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com
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