Ah yes....I remember from a while ago.
Alas, NDMP is NDMP, so NAS or Mail appliance shouldn't matter much.
Just to confirm, are your tape drives connected/zoned to the appliance(backup 
direct to tape) or to the media server (data over the network)?ie, remote or 
3-way NDMP or whatever it's called.

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> -----Original Message-----> From: Brooks, Jason [mailto:brooksje at 
> longwood.edu] > Sent: October 30, 2006 11:49 AM> To: Paul Keating; NB List 
> Mail> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Linux Media Server + Win2K3 Master> > > Our 
> NDMP is not a NAS, but a mail appliance.  We're using a > media server 
> because of network config.> > The oddity this weekend was that we received 
> the fastest > backup ever, but I can't solidly determine from where.  The > 
> NDMP appliance said only the test media server (Linux) was > able to back it 
> up.  NBU said that the production Media > Server (Windows) did the deed.  
> Logs are not conclusive either.> > I'm also still dealing with the message 
> "Tape Media server is > not active" with tape zoned and visible. Ideas?> > 
> Jason 
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