Joe,

Thanks for the response.  The information you provided brought up some
additional questions.

o Can you describe in more detail what you are doing for snapshotting?
o What version of Networker are you using?
o Do you know if other Networker features are expected to be included in
later releases of the NDMP client?

Thanks.
Teresa


Joe Moore wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:04:20AM -0500, Teresa Biehler wrote:
> > o Is anyone using NDMP to back up an EMC NAS?  Did NDMP work as
> > advertized?  Did you have any problems?  If so, how were they resolved?
> > We've got a Clariion/Celerra environment that we plan on backing up with
> > NDMP.
>
> In short: Yes.  Yes.  Yes.  We told the customer that the restores may
> be a lot of work.  They turned on snapshotting.
>
> A bit more:
> We're backing up an EMC Celerra.  NDMP worked exactly as advertised, as
> long as you notice in the advertisements which Networker features don't
> work with NDMP.  Such as tape scanning (rebuilding index from tape),
> staging, cloning, restoring from the middle of a saveset without reading
> in the whole thing (this is fixed now).
>
> We had a few problems.  The biggest one was that NDMP doesn't seem to
> support accurate reporting of library operations.  This showed itself
> when we had the library (robot) attached to the celerra, and tried to
> load a tape.  The library would start the "tape load", report that it
> was complete, and Networker would immediately try to read from the drive.
> Well before the drive was ready.  We had to set the "load sleep" value to
> 90 seconds, which means inventorying the jukebox was incredibly slow.
>
> --Joe
>
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