Morning,
First off please forgive my terminology if it seems out of wack.
I've taken over the new responsibility of handling backups for our company and 
while I'm up to the challenge, it is quite daunting and is pushing this old guy 
to his limits of his knowledge so I'm looking to you folks for a bit of help.  
Thanks in advance...

We have servers that are attached to LUNS presented by our 960.  I need to 
backup one of the 'mapped' drives but their is so much data on the drive that 
the backup never completes.  I'm currently just backing up the 'N:' drive using 
networker but I'm wondering if there is a way to backup the LUN directly to the 
DataDomain (DD) device without having to go through the server.  Our CIFS are 
backed up using NDMP and can smoke through the data at about 3 to 4 times the 
speed of backing up a drive letter so I'm wondering if the same thing is 
possible by backing up a LUN directly across the SAN to the DD.  Our Recover 
Point appliance is doing replication of some of our systems but we are waiting 
on a new guy to add some more replications.  In the mean time, I need to get 
this backed up in case of a catastrophic failure.

TIA,
Rusty

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