#1 – You can attach on of the drives
from the Scalar 24 directly to the NetApp (I have
used this library with NetApp before and it works
fine). You can also attach
the robotics (Medium Changer) to the NetApp, too, if
you wish to have the whole library on the NetApp. NDMP will recognize any/all of the
devices and export them over the network for Veritas NetBackup to find.
#2 – You can use “dump”,
but you have to move the cartridges in and out of the drive yourself. “dump”
is really focused on a tape drive, not a full tape library. If you use Veritas,
you wouldn’t use the “dump” command, and NetBackup
(I don’t know about BackupExec) can move the
media for you. NetBackup
does not call “dump”, it uses it’s
own commands over the network to the NetApp, where
the NDMP task on the NetApp then writes/reads the
tape.
#3 – You need to get someone else on
the list to answer this fully, but I don’t think there is any way to
schedule backups on a NetApp with “dump”.
Tim Sesow
VP
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cell 303-809-8070
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
[mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On
Behalf Of SKIP HOFMANN
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004
1:54 PM
To: ''toasters@mathworks.com' '
Subject: using NDMP for backups
Hi all
Currently we have a R200, that house
around a TB of data. We are currently using Veritas 9.1 to do the backups over
cifs shares, using this method our backups jobs take a very long time to
complete, and I have heard that this method is not really a supported one or
the preferred method. I would like to use NDMP to backup my data. I have a few
questions about this method.
#1 are backup tape device is an adic
scalar 24. The tape drive is a IBM ULTRIUM-TD2. Using NDMP can I hang
this tape device right off the R200 and just use the "dump" command?
#2 we currently use Veritas
software, can I continue to use this application if I'm using NDMP, or should I
just use Dump?
#3 Can I use the dump command to do
incremental backups and schedule backups.
Thanks for any information
Skip
Skip Hofmann
Senior Network Administrator
TetraTech
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949 608 5801 office