[Veritas-bu] NDMP expectations
2002-09-26 13:22:53
The answer is nope. You have to create a stu for NDMP and exclusively
assign drives to it. These drives cannot be used by any other stu.
~JK
Bob Grabbe wrote:
>
> By dynamic drive sharing, I have a question to clarify.
> My environment is Solaris master w/ Storagetek 9740 enclosire, 8
> dlt7000 drives. I have just installed a Netapp filer in our environment
> and am waiting for the ndmp license before trying any backups.
> What I intended was to leave the current tape drive configuration alone
> and set the ndmp backup to use two streams so that it would use two
> drives of the 8. Is this possible ? From your original message it sounds
> like it might not be, that two drives would have to be dedicated to the
> netapp.
> Anxiously, but hopefully awaiting an answer.
> Thanks
>
> >>> "Steve Curry" <scurry AT yahoo-inc DOT com> 9/26/02 12:48:39 PM >>>
> Yucel,
>
> We backup close to 350TB a week over NDMP. The thing is that it
> either
> works or does not, there is no middle ground. It seems to be the most
> efficient way for us to get the data off our NetApp filers. It puts
> about a 15% hit cpu wise on our filer and seems to climb about 5% for
> each additional stream (although I wouldn't recommend more than 2
> streams on a busy box). The things that I don't like about NDMP
> include
> the fact that file history is very difficult to capture and therefore
> on
> most of our boxes, we do not capture that data. This means if someone
> needs to restore a file or directory, I have to restore the whole
> volume
> to our spare filer and pull that data off. Filers are very reliable
> though and because of snapshots that is a rare case. I also wish that
> you could do dynamic drive sharing with NDMP host, but you can't for
> now. Veritas does however promise that feature sometime next year I
> think. We'll see... ;)
>
> If there is anything else you want to ask me, please feel free.
>
> Steve Curry
> Guardian of Y! Production Data
> Yahoo! Inc.
>
> (e) scurry AT yahoo-inc DOT com
>
>
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> #Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:43 AM
> #To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> #Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP expectations
> #
> #Hi All,
> #
> #I remember reading a lot about NDMP and issues using it. Does
> anyone
> have
> #good/bad experiences using NDMP to backup Solara (EMC) or any other
> NAS
> #box?
> #Especially at a 2+ Terabytes range?
> #
> #I would very much be interested in your feedback.
> #
> #Have a great day.
> #
> #Regards,
> #
> #Yucel
> #
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