I *believe* the problem with this picture is that there are no single
file restores from the client point of view.  NDMP is just using BSD
dump/restore on the filer, which works at the file level.  In the case
of filers as SAN disk the LUN is a single file from WAFL's point of
view.  Which means you can only restore the entire LUN in the case of
disaster.
To get true single file restore the backups would need to be done from
the client.

As I said, I believe this to be true.  But they make advances all the
time and I stopped looking at filers as SAN a while back.

~JK

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of
Chris.Romano AT lazard DOT com
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:02 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup NDMP vs. regular NBK client

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture (aside from the
obvious one of
not being able to back up local disks):

Most of our netbackup clients will be connected to a new SAN which will
have a
Netapps files as a front-end.  We are thinking of getting rid of our
Netbackup
client licenses and replacing them all with one NDMP license. We will
then
backup 99% of our data with NDMP.



Thanks,
Chris





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