We have the same situation - we just kept a Celerra so that we could
restore long-retention backups to it if required. I guess that cannot go
on for ever as the tape drives will be obsolete and the data mover will
break.
It depends on the value of the data. If you are on 'best efforts' then
you can try as suggested to decode the backup format, by copying the
blocks from tape to disk and then having a look at them. At least NDMP
only writes 64k tape blocks, so that makes it easier to copy. However you
may well have issues about metadata, and if your original share was a dual
CIFS/NFS share then you will almost certainly have problems, as there will
be ACL information from either NFS or CIFS that may get in your way.
The safe-but-slow way is to restore it to a Celerra (you didn't actually
get rid of it did you? ;-) ) and then just copy it (CIFS or NFS as
required) to the NetApp, or indeed anywhere.
<<From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of RKastner
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:54 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NDMP Restore to alternate vendor filer
Hello to all,
i have to restore NDMP backups (several TB) made from an EMC Celerra to a
Netapp filer. I know, this kind of restore is not supported by Netbackup
and all other backup software vendors. It's an issue of all the different
vendor NDMP implementations.
But, has someone found a practical solution for this ? Maybe with some
third party products.
Any hints are highly welcome
Thanks in advance
Roland>>
William D L Brown
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