With the NDMP protocol you must have the tape drive attached to the netapp. It
has been my experience that backing up the netapp under NFS was painfully long.
I would connect each netapp to its own drive and use the NDMP protocol.

Steve Moccio
 Lucent Technologies

Jagtar Ghuman wrote:

> I have a customer with a two NetApp 760 filers with about 400GB data on
> each. They are planning to use a dedicated Gigabit LAN for backups by using
> NFS mount to the backup server which is a E420, Solaris 8 and NBU 3.4. Tape
> library is ADIC with 6xDLT8000 drives.
>
> Do you see any issues with this, specially when doing restores to NFS
> mounted drives?
>
> Is this the preferred way of doing NDMP backups as compared to direct
> attaching tape drives to the files and using NBU extension?
>
> Thanks
>
> JG
>
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