If you search for "snapmirror to tape" on Veritas's support site, you
will get a lot of hits for maintenance packs from 5.1 and above to fix
this problem:
NDMP Snapmirror to tape backup would immediately fail.
But no other documentation on how to implement this feature!
Sad
On 10/20/06, Sto Rage(c) <netbacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hope you are familiar with NetApp's Snapmirror technology, which is
> basically mirroring the NetApp volumes to a secondary filer. With SM2T
> (SnapMirror to Tape) the idea is to use tapes as the secondry filer.
> So it works at the block level and incremental updates are based on
> snapshots.
> http://www.bakbone.com/products/network_attached_storage/snapmirror/
> BTW, we don't use it (yet) because we are still a Veritas NetBackup shop.
> I heard Yahoo! switched from Veritas to BakBone just becase of this
> one feature.
>
> -G
>
> On 10/20/06, Len Boyle <Len.Boyle at sas.com> wrote:
> > Sto,
> >
> > Can you go into a little detail on how Snapmirror to tape works?
> >
> > Thanks len
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Sto
> > Rage(c)
> > Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:49 PM
> > To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP data timeout
> >
> > I wish Veritas would come up with a way to do Snapmirror to Tape. If
> > BakBone (NetVault) can do this for years why can't Veritas??
> >
> > -G
> >
> > On 10/20/06, Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com> wrote:
> > > Is there any variable that controls the timeout for NDMP sessions? I
> > > have a netapp that has grown so large that the phase I portion of the
> > > dump takes in excess of 8 hours. Netbackup appears to abort the
> > > backup right at the 8 hour mark if the backup hasn't reached the
> > > point of sending data to the tape yet. I believe that even if I'm only
> > > backing up a qtree, the dump process still has to do phase I for the
> > > entire volume, so this can't be easily broken up.
> > >
> > > We have lots of things under consideration for this beast, but none of
> > > them can be done in the short term. I'd like to extend the timeout on
> > > the NDMP backup. Anyone know if this is possible?
> > >
> > > NBU 6.0/MP3 on Linux. Netapp is hooked to direct tape.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > --
> > > Darren Dunham ddunham at
> > > taos.com
> > > Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
> > > Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
> > > < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. >
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