It is definitely possible to have one Filer with attached tape drives backup
other Filers with NetBackup. That being said, there have been recent posts
to the list from people who've experienced speed problems doing this,
followed by other posts from NetApp saying they're working hard to continue
to improve it. FWIW, I bet you're going to need more tape drives to backup
three filers than you did to backup one anyway. I'd go with a large tape
library, attach one or two drives to each NetApp (depending on size) and
have a Master/media server which also connects to a drive to perform O/S
backups and the NetBackup catalog backups. You can assign robotic control
to any of the Filers or to the Master/media server. I'd probably go with
having it on the Master/media server.
Steve
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup several Netapp filer with only tape devices
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> Dear,
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> I am using Netbackup to backup using NDMP one Netapp filer;
> and it work correctly. All the drive are directly attached
> to the filer.
>
> Now I want to backup 3 more Netapp filer, so I want to know
> the better
> method to do this.
>
> I find several messages into this forum regarding NDMP
> proxy. I know that is very
> difficult to have a such proxy on a UNIX server, but my
> question is
> can I use a Netapp filer as a proxy to backup another netapp
> filer using Netbackup
> software ?
>
> or if is not possible, what is the best method ?
>
> Best regards
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