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[Veritas-bu] Backing up Netapss

2004-12-10 21:57:28
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backing up Netapss
From: Sto Rage© <netbacker AT gmail DOT com> (Sto Rage© )
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:57:28 -0800 
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:53:10 +0000, william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
<william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com> wrote:

> 
> Currently although filers can apparently share tape drives (I've not tried
> it!) you have to dedicate the drives to the filer; this is costly. Veritas
> and NetApp say they are working on this 'for a future release'.    This
> restriction even applies to 3-way backup, where you run an ndmpmoveragent
> process on the media server.  It still has to have a dedicated-for-NDMP
> tape drive.
> 
This restriction is a from Veritas side. Other vendor's backup
products have been supporting NDMP drive sharing  for quite some time
now. Veritas has been promising  for a while now.. *sigh*
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