Hi Simon
You need a license for NDMP if you want backup directly from the
Netapp controller.
As always the speeed varies seen everything from basically not moving
to full speed on the LTO3 tape drev.
One thing you need to be aware of is that the ndmp process is a low
priority process on the filer.
Recovery of single files from NDMP takes quite while as the backup
server/filer has to go through the metadata and find the relevant
bits. But mostly you will restore single files from the snapshots
The internal snapshot functions well, but be aware they require space & cpu.
Hope this helps
Regards
Michael
2012/5/10 Simon Weaver <Simon.Weaver AT iscl DOT net>:
> All
> Going to 7.5 shortly, but there is talk about bringing in a "NetApp" device,
> where it will replace our standard file Server.
>
> Not fully familiar with NetApp and how it talks to NetBackup, I wanted to
> find out from any real world experience how it is used and backed up.
>
> For example, if it holds 8TB of Data, do I need a License for NBU for NDMP
> and use a wizard to configure?
> How do you backup your NetApp devices? Any pros or cons to the setup?
>
> Its advice I am after, so to get real world experience is better to fully
> understand how it works. I got the NBU NDMP Papers here, and the NetApp
> papers, but there is just too much to go through, and I basically want to
> get an idea on how good Netapp is, how quick it can backup and more
> important, recovery?
>
> I saw an online Demo of some sort of NetApp Snapshot feature, where some
> text files were created, a VSS Snapshot copy was made, the files deleted and
> then recovered. But 1kb files is EASY to recover, but wondering how you
> recover 8TB !! :-)
>
> Thank you for any advice
>
> Yours
> Simon
>
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