Networker

Re: [Networker] NDMP clients indexes gets backed up to pool Default - how to solve?

2003-04-28 06:47:40
Subject: Re: [Networker] NDMP clients indexes gets backed up to pool Default - how to solve?
From: Mark T Wragge <storage AT TTT DOT IE>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 11:46:59 +0100
I know that when NDMP was first released the instructions said to not mix
tapes of NDMP and NON-NDMP data.  This may have changed with later versions
of legato.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Oscar NOSPAM Olsson" <spam1 AT QBRANCH DOT SE>
To: <NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 5:52 PM
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.
>
> file://Oscar
>
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