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Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Restore to alternate vendor filer

2009-06-04 08:40:07
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Restore to alternate vendor filer
From: "Jeff Lightner" <jlightner AT water DOT com>
To: <william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com>, "VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU" <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:36:49 -0400
If NBU can be used to read NDMP backups can it be used to bpduplicate
them with the target being the new NDMP?

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Restore to alternate vendor filer

We have the same situation  - we just kept a Celerra so that we could 
restore long-retention backups to it if required.  I guess that cannot
go 
on for ever as the tape drives will be obsolete and the data mover will 
break.

It depends on the value of the data.  If you are on 'best efforts' then 
you can try as suggested to decode the backup format, by copying the 
blocks from tape to disk and then having a look at them.  At least NDMP 
only writes 64k tape blocks, so that makes it easier to copy.  However
you 
may well have issues about metadata, and if your original share was a
dual 
CIFS/NFS share then you will almost certainly have problems, as there
will 
be ACL information from either NFS or CIFS that may get in your way.

The safe-but-slow way is to restore it to a Celerra (you didn't actually

get rid of it did you? ;-) ) and then just copy it (CIFS or NFS as 
required) to the NetApp, or indeed anywhere.

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of RKastner
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:54 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Restore to alternate vendor filer


Hello to all,

i have to restore NDMP backups (several TB) made from an EMC Celerra to
a 
Netapp filer. I know, this kind of restore is not supported by Netbackup

and  all other backup software vendors. It's an issue of all the
different 
vendor NDMP implementations. 
But, has someone found a practical solution for this ? Maybe with some 
third party products. 

Any hints are highly welcome

Thanks in advance
Roland>>

William D L Brown


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