[Veritas-bu] Read an NDMP image with tar?
2005-03-08 10:49:35
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[Veritas-bu] Read an NDMP image with tar? |
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gmackinn AT ford DOT com (MacKinnon, G. R. (Gregory)) |
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Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:49:35 -0500 |
J R wrote:
>You will not be able to use tar or gnu tar to read
>NDMP backups. They are not written using the same
>method (i.e. Tar format)as regular NetBackup backups.
>They are written using the NDMP dump command which is
>an entirely different format. NetBackup when
>performing backups or restores relies entirely on the
>NDMP server to write or read the data. You must have
>an NDMP server at the new location in order to recover
>these tapes. It doesn't necessarily have to be a
>Celerra but does have to support the same NDMP version
>as the Celerra does (which most of them do).
>
>Jeff Redington
>
>"A wise man once said 'Wherever you go, there you are'"
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Man, I'm missing my Solaris/samba server with SAN attached
disks more and more.
Thanks,
Gregg
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