We have a Net App filer and we do not use NDMP.  I simply map a drive on my
master to a share on the filer and put the master name in the policy as a
client.  I am forcing my master to be a client at the time of backup.    

With this method I can restore to any client.  I am using 4.5.3 though.  

I hope that helps some. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Grabbe [mailto:GRABBEB AT dominos DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 7:55 AM
To: stafforj AT core.afcc DOT com; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP restore to Windows server

Yes you would have to restore it to a filer, or another machine that has
ndmp protocol running. 
Having said that, I have seen posts stating that you might be able to
use tar to read the ndmp tapes and restore to your netbackup server,
then copy the files to a windows machine, but I haven't actually tried
this. Restoring directly from the ndmp backup to a windows client is not
possible, though. 
Bob Grabbe
Dominos Pizza LLC
grabbeb AT dominos DOT com


>>> Johnie Stafford <stafforj AT core.afcc DOT com> 5/27/03 6:47:32 PM >>>

I'm fairly sure I know the answer to this question, but I need
confirmation.

We are running 3.4GA on a Solaris 2.6 master. We are backing up a
number of NetApp filers and we are being requested to do a restore of
a handful of files to a Windows 2000 server. 

I'm pretty sure that an NDMP restore requires restoring to a filer,
but I need confirmation before I tell the customer that he's got to
make room on the filer for the restore.

Johnie

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