--- Chris.Romano AT lazard DOT com wrote:
> 
> I was told by Veritas that the Netapps Filer must
> write to the tape drive I/O
> via it's own dump/restore commands and thus would
> need to have physical access
> to the tape drive.  NDMP is a protocol whereby file
> inode info is sent over
> tcp/ip to the Netbackup master catalog, and the data
> is written by the NDMP
> client.
> 
> We are in the process of setting up Netapps Filers
> and are also getting
> conflicting info (from Netapps) about whether we
> will need fiber cards in the
> Filer dedicated to the Tape Library (or Tape SAN)
> for use with NDMP
> 
> 
> Chris.

please see:
http://ftp.support.veritas.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_DataCenter/251713.pdf

we have an emc celerra and used direct and remote with
out problems.  if veritas is saying it wont work
except direct attached, the doc above is incorrect
(which i dont think is true).


                
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