No, but I don't think that will be your problem. I think your problem will
be that you have to configure it as a multi-hosted drive to attach it to
more than one machine anyway. Once you do that, the master will try to
communicate with the daemons to lock the drive whether it needs to be or
not. Since a netapp doesn't run those daemons and its just an ndmp slave,
the backup will probably error out. I'm probably wrong here as its before
noon here and my brain refuses to think to that level so early, but that
would be my initial impression. ;)
You might be better off kicking off a tar from cron if you really want to do
this. The multi-hosted support will probably mess it up in Netbackup.
Kevin Trotman
Storage Management Group
Phone: 817-317-8048
Cell: 817-307-0451
email: Kevin_Trotman AT afcc DOT com
(Trotman, Kevin)
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 3:40 PM
To: Trotman, Kevin
Cc: Veritas-bu List
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Veritas-bu] NetApp backups and multi drives]
I guess that's the question, does it need to lock the drive if no other
filer is trying to access it? I'm thinking along these lines:
filer1 - 6 drives configured for nrst0a thru nrst5a
filer2 - same
I can load a tape into each of the drives and each filer will see it (mt
-f nrstxa status), so every filer sees every drive already.
So, if filer1 is backing up to all 6 drives, and filer2 is not trying to
backup anything, filer1 would use all 6 successfully. When filer1 was
finished filer2 could use the same 6 drives as long as filer1 was not
trying to access those drives.
Is this incorrect?
~JK
"Trotman, Kevin" wrote:
>
> You'd have better luck with a $20 dollar bill in Vegas. ;)
>
> Can you even configure two media servers that are pointed to the same
robot
> drive? I didn't think this was possible without multi-hosted drive support
> (SSO). If you make it a multi-hosted drive, then its not gonna be able to
> lock the drive for Netapp anyway (not supported with SSO).
>
> Kevin Trotman
> Storage Management Group
> Phone: 817-317-8048
> Cell: 817-307-0451
> email: Kevin_Trotman AT afcc DOT com
> (Trotman, Kevin)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Kennedy [mailto:jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 1:57 PM
> To: kas AT veritas DOT com
> Cc: Veritas-bu List
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Veritas-bu] NetApp backups and multi drives]
>
> I understand that SSO is not available from Veritas for ndmp yet, this
> is technically not SSO. Netapp filers see all the tape drives attached
> to the library anyway, whether you configure them in NBU or not. So the
> question is this: Can I configure NBU to see all drives for all filers?
>
> The only issue I can come up with is if NBU causes the filer to
> periodically go out and check the drive status. If that's the case then
> it could be problematic to have several filers checking drive status on
> the same drive at the same time. However, if NBU does not cause that,
> then a filer could use all the drives it is configured for in NBU as
> long as no backup overlaps.
>
> Anyone see another issue with this scenario?
>
> Thanks.
>
> ~JK
>
> Karen Schoenbauer wrote:
> >
> > It looks like he is trying to do SSO for NDMP. SSO does not support
NDMP
> > attached drives.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Jeff
> > > Kennedy
> > > Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:22 PM
> > > To: Veritas-bu List
> > > Subject: [Fwd: [Veritas-bu] NetApp backups and multi drives]
> > >
> > >
> > > No respondees so far. Is everyone waiting for a summary or is noone
> > > doing this at all?
> > >
> > > Jeff Kennedy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have 4 filers connected via fiber channel to an ATL P6000. There
> are
> > > > 5 drives dedicated to ndmp, 1 drive per filer for the first 3 filers
> and
> > > > the 4th has 2. Each filer sees all the drives but only one (or 2)
> > > > drives are configured in NetBackup for each filer.
> > > >
> > > > Question:
> > > >
> > > > Why can't I configure NetBackup for 4 drives per filer
> > > as long as they
> > > > never backup at the same time?
> > > >
> > > > I know DDA for ndmp is not available but I wonder if the above would
> > > > work since the filers all see the other drives anyway.
> > > >
> > > > I am running Ontap 6.x, qlogic fcal cards, Vixel fiber switch to
> P6000.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
>
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