Actually, you can do NDMP backups of network appliance across the network to 
*another NDMP media server* -- currently that means any other network appliance 
filer (there might even be an NT NDMP media server by now, but we have all UNIX 
masters).

We have all of our NetApp backup classes set to "any available storage unit".  
If a backup is queued and the drive attached to the filer is busy or down, it 
simple selects another netapp tape drive and backs up to it... at about 40-60% 
throughput hit the last time I checked.

Kelly


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Kelly Wyatt, Kelly.Wyatt AT SAS DOT com
Senior Systems Programmer
Strategic Recovery
SAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Drive / Cary, NC  27513
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Worman [mailto:rob AT colltech DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 10:42 AM
To: Rudy Nedved
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetApp/NDMP to non-NetApp connected
tapedrive/jukebox


>Is anyone using Veritas NetBackup (with NDMP option) to
>perform NDMP based backups over the network from a
>Network Appliance to a tape drive that is not attached to
>another Network Appliance?
>
>My expectation "was" Veritas has its "tape server" working with
>NDMP and I would simply backup via NDMP from the NetApp to the
>Veritas tape server.... Either I am wrong or I am clueless on
>configuring it.

not clueless, just wrong.  :)

in spite of the "N" in NDMP, what you want to do is not currently 
possible with Netbackup's NDMP add-on product.  You gotta 
direct-connect those Netapps to the tape drive(s), or else back them 
up via NFS/CIFS (yuk!)

rob
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