We are using netbackup to back up our filers over NFS. This works without problems but soon we will be changing over to use locally attached tape drives and NDMP. With locally attached drives we can back up CIFS as well as Unix data. Also, each filer will be treated as a seperate client instead of as an NFS file system of the backup server.
What were the problems you had with Networker? I should be able to tell you if you can expect the same problems from Netbackup. By the way, one of the main reasons we went with Netbackup over Networker is because Netbackup has a seperate backup catalog for each backup of each client whereas Networker only has a seperate backup catalog for each client but not for each backup. In other words, for Networker each backup for a client is appended to that client's catalog and this can grow huge and in our experience was subject to corruption and performance problems.
-Steve gremban@ti.com
Michael Salmon wrote:
I wondered if anyone was using NetBackup with their filers. We are currently using Networker but are sufficiently dissatisfied that we going to look at NetBackup and I am interested in any problem that others have encountered.
/Michael