How are you backing up the Netapp? Via UNC path (CIFS) or NFS mounts?
If UNC or NFS mount, you could try to add the path of the snapshot as
your backup selection e.g.
/vol/vol1/.snapshot./hourly.0  <- for NFS ( or whatever snapshot you
want to backup)
\\<filer1>\<sharename>\~snapshot\hourly.0  <- for CIFS.
Note: I haven't tried this though, we use NDMP, but in theory this
should work. Only thing that may be an issue would be the archive bit,
since the snapshot is readonly, the backup process may try to set the
archvie bit and fail.

If NDMP, Netapp creates a snapshot before the backup starts.

-G

On 10/27/05, Paul Keating <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca> wrote:
>
> Anyone using snapshots on a Netapp to get a "point in time"
>
> ie, if you want to get a "point in time" backup of say 10am on a Monday
> morning......rather than backing up directly to tape, over however long that
> takes, do you take a snapshot of the volume using the Netapp tools, then use
> netbackup to backup the snapshot data to tape?
>
> is this possible? feasible?
>
> I haven't found much about it.....looking up "backup snapshot netapp"
> doesn't turn up many hits outside of describing what snapshot backups do.
>
> Paul