[Veritas-bu] NDMP for Netbackup
2002-04-24 10:56:28
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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