Re: [Veritas-bu] convert NDMP tapes

Thanks Ed. Has anyone ever used one of these services for this type of task?

Dwayne Adams

From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 11:48 AM
To: Adams, Dwayne
Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] convert NDMP tapes

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Adams, Dwayne <AdamsDC AT medsch.ucsf DOT edu> wrote:

Has anyone ever heard of a service that someone offers to convert NDMP tapes to another format? We are looking at getting rid of some old NDMP Filers (OnStor) that still have tapes with 7 year retention data on them. My options are to keep a legacy restore environment or restore the data and then backup using CIFS. I also need to encrypt the data in whatever process I use. My manger says he has heard of a service that will do the conversion for you. Has anyone heard of this? Please advise.

One of the problems is that NDMP isn't really a standard for tapes - it's a protocol, not a tape format. You can't even restore an NDMP backup created by a NetApp to a Celerra, for example.

There are a lot of tape/data conversions out there. This is the first one that my goodsearch returned: http://www.dataconversion.com/. I'd be surprised if companies like Ontrack coiuldn't do it as well. Use the search engines :-)

Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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