On Thu, 08 May 2003 09:54:15 -0400 Chris Shenton Chris.Shenton@hq.nasa.gov wrote:
Please excuse my ignorance, we're just about to buy a Filer or two but I don't have any hands-on experience yet.
We're looking at a first filer with about 2.5TB and my understanding is we could not do a tape backup overnight with only a single-drive tape subsystem. At this time, we would prefer not to invest in something like Legato to intelligently drive a multi-drive jukebox like the Spectralogic series, though this should be able to dump the full capacity overnight. ("enterprise backup" is down the road).
Instead, I was considering getting a second NetApp (probably refurb with transferable license) and backing up the first to the second. This seems surprisingly cost-effective. (I'd love to do SnapMirror but it's surprisingly cost-prohibitive.)-:
Is there a way to natively run dumps from one NetApp to another without Legato-ish middleware? without an intermediary client box doing NFS/CIFS mounts? (we need to preserve both filesystem attributes).
Yup.
filer2> ndmpcopy usage: ndmpcopy [<options>] <source> <destination>
<source> and <destination> are of the form [<filer>:]<path> options: [-sa <username>:<password>] [-da <username>:<password>] source/destination filer authentication [-st { text | md5 }] [-dt { text | md5 }] source/destination filer authentication type default is md5 [-l { 0 | 1 | 2 }] incremental level default is 0 [-d] debug mode [-f] force flag, to copy system files [-h] display this message
Just enable your ndmpd (options ndmpd.enable on) and let it go.
Greetings,