Hi Mike
I notice that you didn't get an answer, so I'll try one here, at least to
start some discussion.
I'm assuming that your Solaris version is a recent one (8 or 9).
So, if I'm understanding this, you want to:
- connect the library autochanger device to your Solaris NetWorker server
system
- connect four tape drives to your Solaris NetWorker server system
- connect four tape drives to your NetApp filer
First, I don't think an NDMP device can be a storage node.
Second, I took a quick search through the NDMP 3 or 4 specifications, and I
didn't find clone to be a supported feature. So, I'm not sure if the NDMP
spec itself supports the cloning/replication of media. If this isn't
supported natively by a NDMP system, then something (like a storage node)
must provide that feature.
But, since every NetWorker server is also a storage node, you could have the
NetWorker server perform the cloning, without needing to buy a storage node
license.
Hope this helps the discussion along.
tl
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-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 4:39 PM
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Subject: [Networker] NDMP Cloning
Presently we are running 7.1.3 on a Solaris server, Library is attached
via Fiber Bridge to the server. We want to make the 4 of our 8 LTO's
drives "directly attached" to our 4 netapp filers. Can we remove the
snapimage module [we only use it for the NDMP transport, no caching at
all] upgrade to 7.2 and use the new features of 7.2 to do our cloning
without needing to purchase storage nodes for the filers?
Honestly this whole thing has become such of a nightmare its ridiculous.
3 weeks ago we had a Legato engineer come out [Not a legato engineer but
legato trained] and told us that we needed storage nodes and DDS to
make this work. Just trying to filter through some truth here.
Mike Hawkins
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