Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring NDMP backups over the network
2008-01-24 01:46:09
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:37:01PM -0600, Nick Majeran wrote:
> AFAIK, I don't think Netbackup actually writes anything Netbackup
> specific to the headers of NDMP tapes, as the tape drives are
> controlled by the filer during the time of backup / restore. I
> believe all that Netbackup does is just grab metadata over the network
> and creates an image based on that.
If that were true, the tapes wouldn't have a Netbackup media header
(RVSN). You can easily read them, even on tapes labeled by an NDMP tape
drive. I think this is done via the scsi pass-through service within
NDMP.
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