Re: Need new backup solution

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, John Stoffel wrote:

5. Are you willing to spend the money on NDMP capable software and a DLT7000 jukebox attached directory to the filer(s)? That would get the network out of the equation almost completely.

I've seen several comments like this in the past and I don't understand them. Why do you feel it is neccessary to spend money on NDMP capable software to be able to use a directly attached tape drive? It probably took me a couple of hours to put togethor a shell script which will back up the filer using the locally attached tape drive. The script runs on the admin host and uses rsh commands to connect to the filer and run the dump program. Two hours of my time is a lot less expensive than any of the commercial backup solutions, especially since it would have taken me almost 2 hours to fill out the paperwork for the purchase. Plus, it was an interesting problem to solve so I enjoyed doing it.