Matthew,

Thanks for responding.  Our environment currently precludes doing
b/u's locally to the netapp.  However, this could change down the
road (read: I *will* push for a change), if SnapImage doesn't work
for us as is needed.  That's what evaluation periods are all about.

Doing the b/u over NFS is a part of the testing process, to see what
works, what doesn't, and why.

d



At 16:24:05, on 10.21.03:
Cracks in my tinfoil beanie allowed Matthew Huff to seep these bits into my 
brain:,
> >From my reading of NetApp and backups, you will have trouble backing up
> over NFS or CIFS any filesystem that is foreign. For example, backing up
> a CIFS or MacOS files over NFS, or Unix files over CIFS. Certain
> metadata (acls, etc) information will be lost at a miniumum or in some
> cases you won't be able to backup certain file types at all. The
> solution that NetApp promotes is using NDMP from legato to backup the
> NetApp to a locally attached tape system so that the native dump utility
> can write directly to the tape. This way there are no "filters" to the
> raw data.

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