All I can tell you is I worked temporarily for a government site that was 
looking at (evaluating) NetBackup in February of 2001 because of it's supossed 
NDMP capabilities and we experienced similar problems. We were also not 
encouraged by Veritas assistance on this one however the NetApp tech support 
was pretty good. Since NDMP was the driving force behind acquiring a backup 
product, we did NOT choose NetBackup.

Regards,
Dennis Dwyer

>>> Steve Curry <scurry AT yahoo-inc DOT com> 07/09/02 23:07 PM >>>
Thanks ahead of time for reading my email.  


Recently we upgraded a small backup farm to NB Data Center 4.5 backing
up NetApp filers running 6.1.2 and 6.1.3.  We have since seen some very
bizarre behavior while doing NDMP backups.  I'm curious if anyone else
runs a similar environment and if so have you had any issues?

The main problems we seem to have is that backups randomly just stop and
the filer just starts mounting media in a random cycle. Or backups won't
start at all, the filer just cycles through all the available media and
then the backup fails because the backup window closes.

I have opened a case with Veritas, but have been very discouraged with
the response.


Cheers,


Steve Curry
Yahoo! Inc.



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