Thanks to everyone for their responses on this.  It looks like all this can be
done, but once again, not a perfect world!

Larry Chisesi


Michelle Duncan - NCS NSO wrote:

> > One of our customers is looking to bring a Network Appliance file server
> > on line 1st quarter 1999.   There will be as much as 450 GB of data,
> > home directories for most users and hundreds of thousands of small files
> > in lots of directories.   I am having nightmares already!
>
> We are, to our best knowledge, the largest Network Appliance Filer house
> running backups to ADSM...currently we have 75 NetApp filers - the largest
> of which is currently 240g, but with the 700 series out, those are
> growing rapidly.
>
> We've pushed NetApp to push IBM for an ADSM client - IBM refuses stating
> that NFS mounting them works and indeed it does, but it turns into quite
> a cumbersome task when you have over 70 of them that need hand tending.
>
> We have ADSM v3.2 running on AIX v4.  We have a 12 hour backup window in
> which we need daily runs on all 70+ filers.  We have several different
> 'homespun' itterations of NetApp->ADSM backups running trying to see
> what is the best way to do them with the best throughput.  The best as
> far as accounting for WHAT on the filer is getting backed up is also
> very admin intensive.  Currently we're running about 5 different
> styles - only two are proving to work with any sort of accuracy and
> consistancy.
>
> I won't clog the list with them unless there are people interested - but
> if you want to talk more, drop me an email at micki AT synopsys DOT com and 
> I'll
> be more than happy to outline our methods to you.  Unfortunitly, I think
> they're as close to a client as we'll see for quite sometime.
>
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> Michelle Duncan                           micki AT synopsys DOT com
> Storage Systems Administrator            pager: 650.940.3353
> Synopsys, Inc.                           phone: 650.943.5464
>
>  "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if
>             you just sit there."  --Will Rogers