Hello,
Before you go down the path of backing up NAS without NDMP Licences, you 
should consider what are you putting at risk, how large is your data store 
going to be, what will be the recovery objectives and will it be reliable 
backups? what is your backup window & will you be able to meet it ?
You may allest want to consider snapshots for onsite recovery along with 
all your backup\recover scenarios & test them.
HTH



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We're looking at NAS (in particular Sun's Unified Storage), and doing 
backups of it without needing the NDMP license is being floated.  We don't 
need all of it covered.

Problem is that some of the NAS may be presented as iSCSI LUNs, possibly 
mounted 'locally' as ZFS filesystems.

Can that still be covered by mounting the LUN on our Server or SN, or will 
that require backup from the client instead?  Logged UFS may be an 
alternative, have not gotten that far yet in the planning.

I do understand that any Windows shares would have to be done by one of 
the Windows clients, since my Server and SN are Solaris.

--Tim Kimball

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