Bruce,
   You might designate a basic windows server as a backup server and
have it mount the CIFS shares from the vfiler and then run a regular
backup.  This way, you could restore to any windows server.  If you are
using NFS do the same with a basic linux or unix box.

Cheers,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.


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Dollens, Bruce
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 12:16 PM
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Thanks Shawn,

I was afraid that was the answer. Unfortunately this is a vfiler so we
will need to backup with NDMP.

Thanks,
--Bruce


-----Original Message-----
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Shawn Drew
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:52 AM
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You do need a NAS to restore NDMP data . No way around that.

You would have to switch to NFS/CIFS backups (as opposed to NDMP)  in
order to restore without the Netapp.
Maybe have a separate, short-retention CIFS backup just for DR purposes.

Regards,
Shawn
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We just recently added an IBM N series NAS and using TSM NDMP to back up
our data nightly.

We are going to be doing a DR in a couple of weeks and we do not have a
NAS at our test site and will build a huge server to restore the data
to.

How will we restore to an alternate location if it is not a NAS box? I
have looked at the restore options with TSM and it looks like it has to
restore to a NAS.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Bruce Dollens



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