Re: [Networker] Directed Recover with DDS and NDMP restore

When you do CIFS backup I was told that retaining ACL's  is problem , is it
true ?
When you are doing restore obviously you have to do using CIFS /NFS .

I was told by Legato sales that NAS vendors use ifferent formats to write on
the tape using NDMP makes it impossible to read Netapps NDMP tape by EMC NAS
or HP NAS .

From your comments it looks to me that it is better if you have NAS in

Disaster recovery center as well .

From: Hrvoje Crvelin <hcrvelin AT ORCHESTRA DOT DE>
Reply-To: hcrvelin AT orchestra DOT de
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Directed Recover with DDS and NDMP restore
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:42:44 +0200

Hi,

> Thanks for your comments Hrvoje , does it mean that you can
> no restore it to any other non NAS device  ?
AFAIK, that would be the case in theory.  The same thing applies
when it comes to NDMP cloning.  In practice, it could be perhaps
possible to even make it work, but I guess the amount of possible
gotchas makes it completly unsupported and out of the question at
this time.

My assumption would be that to have two different filers by
two different vendors running together in terms of directed
restore they would need to use same dump mechanicm on each
filer target to be completly compatible and you same approach
to read it.  If you have right now two different filers, you
test it by logging on one and make some dump on tape and then try
to read it on second one.  The same happens with NetWorker - he's
just here to say which tape is needed and here you will do that
manually.

> Is there any workaround  ?
For the disaster recovery thing hard, but you could always try
to make backups over the CIFS/NFS from time to time and I guess
restore of those over the another CIFS/NFS could work, but this
also too risky and full of unexpected gotchas (and that's the
last thing you want when you really NEED restore).

Cheers,
.c

--
Note: To sign off this list, send a "signoff networker" command via email
to listserv AT listmail.temple DOT edu or visit the list's Web site at
http://listmail.temple.edu/archives/networker.html where you can
also view and post messages to the list.
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=


_________________________________________________________________
STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

--
Note: To sign off this list, send a "signoff networker" command via email
to listserv AT listmail.temple DOT edu or visit the list's Web site at
http://listmail.temple.edu/archives/networker.html where you can
also view and post messages to the list.
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=