I believe you need both a ndmp license for netbackup and the netapp.

If you have DAR configured for the backup and restore a trival restore should 
only take a few mins. 
I believe the first time we tested dar it took 5 mins to restore a file. And 
that included mounting and positioning the tape.
Where without DAR it could take hours or a day as it had to scan the whole 
netbackup image. And it was the whole  image even the file was restored in the 
first few mins. 
I was told that he had to look for an update.



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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Preston, 
Douglas
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 1:29 PM
To: 'Michael Graff Andersen'; 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
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Is this a NetBackup license or a netapp license you are referring to?

Doug Preston
Phone 626-667-1447
Email  dlpreston AT lereta DOT com


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Graff Andersen
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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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