[Networker] NDMP questions

Hi all,

I've been asked to look into possibly adding a NAS to our environmentand back it up using Networker. I've never used a NAS before so I havesome basic questions which I'm hoping someone will be able to answer for me.

I've figured out that I'd use NDMP to back up the NAS device (at thisstage I'm not sure which NAS device we'd be getting). Looking throughthe admin guide it looks like there are a few ways to configure this. Ithink we'd be looking at the local backup, where we connect a tapelibrary directly to the NAS.

So my first question is, does the tape library have to be a special NDMPaware library, or can any SCSI library which is supported by Networkerwork? Specifically, we have a Quantum SuperLoader 3 with one DLT-S4drive which we'd be looking to attach to the NAS.

My second question is to do with licensing. There are various Tierlevel licenses for NDMP client connections based on the number ofprocessors. Am I correct in saying that this is the number ofprocessors in the NAS unit itself? And, is an autochanger licenserequired for the library which will be attached to the NAS?


Thanks,

Nick

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Nick Tan
Unix Systems Manager
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
nick AT wehi.edu DOT au

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