Using NDMP to backup requires using NDMP to restore, mostly.  As Bob
mentioned you can restore filer data to a Solaris machine using
'restore' (not tar, the filer uses BSD dump/restore) but if you're going
to go through hoops like that you might as well just restore to the
filer and map a share from the client.  Otherwise you would lose NT
ACL's if you had them.

As for using NFS or CIFS to backup data on a filer there are 2 issues.
One is overhead, which may or may not be an issue for some but it's
definitely more than NDMP.  Second is snapshots.  If you use NDMP it
will automatically take the snapshot for you to avoid open file issues.
You can of course manually take a snapshot and back that up but I'm
betting most people who backup over NFS or CIFS are not doing that.

~JK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yosifovski, Tammy [mailto:Tammy.Yosifovski AT usfc DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 6:24 AM
> To: 'Bob Grabbe'; stafforj AT core.afcc DOT com; veritas-
> bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NDMP restore to Windows server
> 
> We have a Net App filer and we do not use NDMP.  I simply map a drive
on
> my
> master to a share on the filer and put the master name in the policy
as a
> client.  I am forcing my master to be a client at the time of backup.
> 
> With this method I can restore to any client.  I am using 4.5.3
though.
> 
> I hope that helps some.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Grabbe [mailto:GRABBEB AT dominos DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:55 AM
> To: stafforj AT core.afcc DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP restore to Windows server
> 
> Yes you would have to restore it to a filer, or another machine that
has
> ndmp protocol running.
> Having said that, I have seen posts stating that you might be able to
> use tar to read the ndmp tapes and restore to your netbackup server,
> then copy the files to a windows machine, but I haven't actually tried
> this. Restoring directly from the ndmp backup to a windows client is
not
> possible, though.
> Bob Grabbe
> Dominos Pizza LLC
> grabbeb AT dominos DOT com
> 
> 
> >>> Johnie Stafford <stafforj AT core.afcc DOT com> 5/27/03 6:47:32 PM >>>
> 
> I'm fairly sure I know the answer to this question, but I need
> confirmation.
> 
> We are running 3.4GA on a Solaris 2.6 master. We are backing up a
> number of NetApp filers and we are being requested to do a restore of
> a handful of files to a Windows 2000 server.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that an NDMP restore requires restoring to a filer,
> but I need confirmation before I tell the customer that he's got to
> make room on the filer for the restore.
> 
> Johnie
> 
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