This is a situation where a VTL would be
quite useful.
You could create some virtual drives that
are assigned as NDMP drives and dedicated to a filer, and also have a suitable
number of non-NDMP drives assigned to master or media servers.
The VTL would then clone tapes from both
behind the scenes.
The need for SSO drives (with associated license
cost and configuration complexity) would also disappear.
I can’t remember off the top of my
head what our NetApp/Symantec folks have told me about the SSO for NDMP, but I
think it is a feature of 6.5, and some version of OnTap.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Jerry Rioux
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP tape
drives
We are running NB 5.1 on a Windows master and have 2 drive in an autoloader.
One drive is defined as an NDMP drive the other is a normal media drive. Can I
make an NDMP storage unit and point to the non-NDMP drive to do
backup to it?
Would the situation be any different if I upgraded to 6.5?
