Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] odd occurance, network restore using NDMP drive

2006-08-03 11:32:53
Subject: [Veritas-bu] odd occurance, network restore using NDMP drive
From: sq01 at yorku.ca (Steve Quan)
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:32:53 -0400 (EDT)
Yep, was surprised by this behaviour a few months ago (and we're not using
SSO). Fix wa sto include, "DISALLOW_NONNDMP_ON_NDMP_DRIVE" in vm.conf.

/Steve
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Paul Keating wrote:

> Anyone ever seen anything like this before?
>
> I started a restore job for a client that had been backed up over IP to
> the master/media server.
>
> It seems Netbackup stuck the tape into a drive that is attached (zoned
> and configed) to one of my NetApp filers.
>
> What's even more odd, is that the tape mounted fine and data is being
> read from it....and apparantly being restored properly, to the client,
> proxied by the master/media.
>
> I can see the tape read stats in the Netapp's logs, and I can see the
> data appearing on the client.
>
> It seems very familiar to me, like I've had this happen before, but I
> can't find anything in my notes.....
>
> Paul