Re: [Veritas-bu] ndmp cross-platform restore compatibility

Darren - I concur, but let me make a distinction.  The Solaris ufsrestore 
utility and reading a NetApp NDMP image (which uses a similar format to 
Solaris' ufsdump utility) are compatible (mostly).

This being said, I did not require a NetApp to do the restore using this method 
- in fact, I did not require Veritas either, only Solaris and an attached AIT-3 
drive, BUT given an ideal scenario (AIT-3 drives attached to a NetApp filer), I 
would have rather used Veritas natively to perform the NDMP Import and Restore 
to guarantee a proper restore of the data.

Do other NDMP-supported NAS use different formats?  If so, do they also require 
same-platform to do the restores?  Just curious - my only NDMP experience has 
been with NetApp.

-Doug

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] ndmp cross-platform restore compatibility

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:30:41AM -0700, Staub, Doug wrote:
> There is the possibility of using Solaris' ufsrestore utility to
> restore NDMP backups

I would amend that to *netapp* NDMP backups.  For any given platform,
there might be a solution.

In the general case, there is no guarantee of being able to do a restore
to anything other than "the same platform".

--
Darren
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