Fazil Saiyed wrote:
> 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
> 


Most of this I have already, as the NAS is eventually replacing both a MSCS 
cluster (sharing out a single 500 gig disk - which is serving four different 
uses unfortunately), and a Veritas cluster (for the UNIX-side mounts, about 90 
gig split over several shared partitions).  There is also some overflow onto 
one other server (PC side of course) to the tune of about 200 gig.

The backup window is currently 30 hours on the Full (which is what the current 
MSCS cluster is doing, *barely*, and I hope to fix that just by splitting the 
monolithic 500 gig share into several purpose-built shares).

'Snaps are a hard sell here, unless you can recover an individual file from 
within the snap.

Still don't have an answer to my original question though - can you mount an 
iSCSI LUN from the NAS on two different Sun hosts (the second one being for 
backup only)?  If that will not be possible for backup, then we'll either do 
all NFS or go and get the license.

--TSK

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