> I'm unsure what you mean by "3-way ndmp backups" ?

Once you start dealing with a number of netapps, _this_ is the best thing since 
sliced bread :)
The tape drive is attached to a media server rather then a netapp directly, and 
the 
media server and netapp(s) are both NDMP authorised.
Means you can send multiple netapps to the same tape drive(s), and is a boon 
when tape
drives "break".. the backups can go to another drive if available, and you 
don't have to 
panic *quite* as much. :)

> Also if you backup data via NDMP from the NetApp, you are will be restricted 
> in it's recovery. It must be restored via NDMP, this can be a problem not 
> being able to restore to another non-NDMP client machine!! (HOWEVER - it is 
> possible to recover an NDMP backup via a SUN system, which you have). I have 
> got some notes on how to restore NDMP backups via a SUN system.

Sonds like your notes are about 3 way backup, BUT could you please forward 
these to me ? 
If it's not what I think it is, it would be very useful. (i've been dreading 
the day
i'd need to do a complete netapp restore to somewhere other then the source 
netapp)

-suz

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