> Good info.  Thanks for sharing your viewpoint on this.  I'm sure it will 
> figure into how we manage the NDMP side of things.   From what I have seen in
> the industry, there are no pretty NDMP solutions - and Legato has many of its
> own problems in this area, although it's been released since some time last
> year (DAR and DDS).

There are indeed some pretty NDMP solutions.
Check out BakBone's NetVault product. It offers DAR, DDS (dynamic drive sharing 
with NAS) and in addition to that you can backup standard clients (unix, 
windows) to drives attached to NAS.

Andreas Hohmann