Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] NDMP for Netbackup

2002-04-24 10:56:28
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP for Netbackup
From: dritschel62 AT yahoo DOT com (Douglas Ritschel)
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 07:56:28 -0700 (PDT)
Another limitation of connecting the tape drives to
the ndmp host is that you cannot use the tape drives
to duplicate tapes. You have to use tape drives
connected to a Unix or Windows machine to duplicate
tapes.


--- Jeff Kennedy <jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com> wrote:
> NDMP data can only be restored to an NDMP client. 
> Currently there is no
> way to make an NDMP client out of a Sun or Windows
> box.
> 
> ~JK
> 
> Bob Grabbe wrote:
> > 
> > Need information, and I haven't been able to get a
> definitive answer
> > from the manuals.
> > 
> > We are looking to add a Netapp appliance to our
> infrastructure and use
> > Netbackup for NDMP to back it up. I am currently
> using NBU 3.4.1 with a
> > scsi attached tape library.
> > For the Netapp box, we are going to attach 2 9940
> drives directly to
> > the filer that will reside in our current storage
> library and manage it
> > from our current NBU server.
> > Question is, is it possible to restore files from
> an NDMP backup to a
> > different client, e.g. to a Windows 2000 server
> that is not an NDMP
> > client, or can restores only be done to the Netapp
> filer ? I'm thinking
> > that any restores have to be done to the filer,
> but I'd like to confirm
> > this before we spend the cash.
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Bob Grabbe
> > Dominos Pizza LLC
> > 734-930-3703
> > Fax 734-669-3703
> > grabbeb AT dominos DOT com
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