Seems to me the OP was specifying backups of TCP/IP to a drive attached
to the backup server.
By TCP/IP, I take this to mean, via a mount, and NOT NDMP......in this
case, a dedicated drive wouldn't be necessary, as it would be backed up
as a filesystem more or less local to the backup server....for true NDMP
backups (drive attachedto NetApp) then a separate drive WOULD be
required.

Paul

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> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
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> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote NDMP to master (5.1) server 
> - dedicated drive needed?
> 
> 
> The dedicated drive is needed at 5.1.
> 
> A future version of NetBackup is expected to remove this 
> restriction, for 
> remote NDMP only.  As far as I know there is no suggestion that NDMP 
> drives attached to appliances will be shareable through NetBackup.
> 
> If you are having problems, make sure you have the security 
> set up right.  
> It is a bit confusing, as while you normally for backup to a drive 
> attached to an appliance need to add in NetBackup the authentication 
> details that log you into the appliance, for remote NDMP you 
> need to add 
> authentication information to log into the server itself.
> 
> William D L Brown
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