I agree / disagree with your opinion ;-)
I advise you not to mix NDMP and non-NDMP backups on the same tape,
sometimes I would even advise not to mix NDMP and NDMP on the same tape.
I does/should work, but due to the way NDMP works you may have problems in
the future. I have seen problems caused by appending to NDMP tapes where the
NDMP saveset was aborted causing all subsequent savesets to be unreadable.
Another disadvantage is that it makes recovering using the NetApp restore
more difficult (you have to know what you are doing).
It can be done, it does work, but I prefer to keep the backups separated.
Bye
Ernie
-----Original Message-----
From: Oscar NOSPAM Olsson [mailto:spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE]
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 6:53 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] NDMP clients indexes gets backed up to pool
Default - how to solve?
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Mark T Wragge wrote:
MTW> So although my filer data and index are backed up to the same pool they
are
MTW> always to seperate tapes. If I do not have a tape in this pool in the
MTW> library of the networker server then the group will never complete as
there
MTW> will be a pending message requesting a tape.
Well, either way, the solution was much more simple than I thought. It is
possible to mix savesets from NDMP clients and non-NDMP clients. One just
has to allow the NDMP pool to use all tape devices in the library. Then it
mounts a tape from that pool on a non-NDMP tape device and writes the
index there. I have tried mounting a tape that has only indexes on it on
the NDMP tape device and starting the savegroup that contains NDMP
clients, and it has saved data to that tape successfully as well.
Conclusion: The information I had previously received off-list about not
mixing NDMP savesets and non-NDMP savesets was incorrect. Everything works
now.
//Oscar
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