That's what I thought...cheers.
Jim Neild
Technical Analyst
Smart Systems for Health Agency (SSHA)
Phone: 905-944-5388
E-mail: jim.neild AT ssha.on DOT ca
-----Original Message-----
From: Byron Servies [mailto:bservies AT PACANG DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:15 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Bigasm through NDMP
On July 23, 2003 at 15:10, Neild, Jim wrote:
> We have an EMC Celerra that we want to performance test and in the
> past, on other clients, we have used BIGASM. We are not having any
> luck getting it to work on the Celerra, it backs it up as just a plain
> old file. Where does the "magic" of BIGASM occur? At the client
> level (the Celerra has no NSR client software installed)?
>
> Any input on this? Is it possible to BIGASM an NDMP client?
Hi there!
I don't believe this is possible. bigasm uses NetWorkers
file backup protocol to store a virtual file, made up of sequential
numbers stored as ASCII, to the server. Since the data comes directly
from memory, the performance of the filesystem is eliminated as a
performance variable. Also, using a sequential count as the file data
allows the file to be verified during restore testing.
Because it uses the file protocol directly, I do not believe
it will work in an NDMP environment.
Byron
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