Steve,

We have essentially the same setup and have read backup tapes created
on the NetApp using NDMP manually using the following two methods:

1) Veritas via NDMP just uses the NetApp "dump" command to creat the
backups.  This format is compatible with ufsdump, thus the tape can be
read on a Solaris system using ufsrestore (though some information may
be lost if using NT ACL's).

2) the following is cut and paste from my notes. empress is the Sun
where Veritas is installed and odin is the NetApp...

to restore files on odin without the aid of netbackup:

from empress, have a tape mounted:
tpreq -ev def100 -p odin-vol0-full /tmp/tp

now do look at /tmp/tp to find out what tape drive has the tape
cat /tmp/tp
odin /ndmp/nrst0a

from odin, we can manipulate the tape using mt:
mt -f nrst0a status

cd to the directory where you want files restored to

to list dumpfile contents:
restore tf nrst0a

to restore the files:
restore xf nrst0a ./dir/path

when finished, unload tape:
tpunmount /tmp/tp

Chris Graves
Raytheon


Steve Moccio writes:
 > Hello all,
 > 
 > I am in a situation where I need to try to grab a directory from a backup
 > tape that is no longer in the database. The tape itself is marked available
 > but hasn't been over written yet. We have a Sun E3000 with the Storedge
 > L11000 Jukebox. One of the DLT tape drives is connected to a NetApp F740
 > using the NDMP protocol. Has anyone tried this? Robtest and veritas software
 > can see the drive through the netapp but commands like
 > dump,restore,mt,etc.... can not.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 >  Steve Moccio
 > 
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