My understanding is that the very latest DataONTAP (7.1.1) and NetBackup 6 
versions have finally addressed the problem of sharing the drive.  However 
I also thought I read that with NetBackup 6 the drive if on the server no 
longer needs to be dedicated to NDMP anyhow - what was broken was the 
sharing of a drive connected to both a NetApp and non-NDMP media servers.

Read this, newly updated:
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/251713.htm

<<Note: Shared Storage Option (SSO) for NDMP in NetBackup 6.0 may be used 
with any of the vendors? software listed below if the software supports 
remote NDMP and remote NDMP is used for the backup.>>

I.e. the Veritas NDMP mover agent is SSO-aware. 

It says that DataONTAP 7.1.1:

<<NetBackup Shared Storage Option ? NDMP hosts and media servers can share 
tape drives>>

If you are on NetBackup 5, then there is no problem controlling it with 
NetBackup - that is 'normal' NDMP backup.   You don't have to have the 
robotics on the NetApp if you don't want to.   I'd check the compatibility 
carefully, avoid "Multi-LUN" tape units unless sure they will work.  If 
this is a new drive, you need a library based tape drive licence only - 
you must already have the NDMP licence.



William D L Brown




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Hi All

Im figure Im more likely to get the correct answer here then from
veritas/semantic.

I have a netapp filter (a cluster actually) that I currently backup using
ndmp to the tape library attached to the (windows) master server. One of
the drives is configured as an ndmp drive.

The need to have one drive configured as ndmp is kill us and I believe 
from
info on this group that this is still not resolved with netbackup 6 and
netapp.

So I need another soln. If I was to directly attach a tape library to one
of the netapp filer heads, would netbackup be able to control the library?
Would i need another licenses beside the license for another library based
drive?

thanks

BB
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