Sto, 

Can you go into a little detail on how Snapmirror to tape works?

Thanks len 

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Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 6:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NDMP data timeout

I wish Veritas would come up with a way to do Snapmirror to Tape. If
BakBone (NetVault) can do this for years why can't Veritas??

-G

On 10/20/06, Darren Dunham <ddunham at taos.com> wrote:
> Is there any variable that controls the timeout for NDMP sessions?  I
> have a netapp that has grown so large that the phase I portion of the
> dump takes in excess of 8 hours.  Netbackup appears to abort the
> backup right at the 8 hour mark if the backup hasn't reached the
> point of sending data to the tape yet.  I believe that even if I'm only
> backing up a qtree, the dump process still has to do phase I for the
> entire volume, so this can't be easily broken up.
>
> We have lots of things under consideration for this beast, but none of
> them can be done in the short term.  I'd like to extend the timeout on
> the NDMP backup.  Anyone know if this is possible?
>
> NBU 6.0/MP3 on Linux.  Netapp is hooked to direct tape.
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
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