For three years I did just that, back up 7 Netapp filers by way of nfs mounts, using Networker 6.0.1 build 174 on a Solaris 2.8 OS, two E250 Servers. and using two L1000 tape library w/4 DLT7000 drives each. The Networker servers have a Gigabit connection to the network, (2) 296MHz CPU's and 768mb memory and I'm backing up 1.5 TB of Netapp data.
We recently went to LTO tapes, one Sun 220R server w/ (1) 450MHz, 1GB memory, gig card for the Solaris side and a NT box to map mount our CIFS only server, both connected to a single Dell Powervault 60 slot tape library.
One of the reasons we went this way was because we were already invested in Legato Networker software licenses for 60 clients and 2 servers. I do weekly full backups of the 1.5 TB Netapp data and another half TB of Solaris and NT clients and daily incrementals.
So my final statement is, performance is not an issue for me.
Regards, Marilyn Caven Next Level Communications
-----Original Message----- From: devnull@adc.idt.com [mailto:devnull@adc.idt.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:57 AM To: Toasters (E-mail) Subject: Legato Backups.
Dear Toasters,
I was wondering if any of you guys were using Legato for backing up your NetApps. I currently have 2 filers that i am backing up to a Legato server running Solaris 2.8 over NFS. I mount the NetApp volumes onto the legato server and then backup those mount points.
I am not sure this is the best thing to do in terms of performance.
Is there an alternate, easier solution.
Thanks,
/dev/null
devnull@adc.idt.com