Re: 5.3D20 and bug #16084

Benjy Feen wrote:

Unfortunately for me, I need a backup solution that:

• is centrally manageable (preferably by NetBackup)
• uses robotic libraries
• is able to provide fast backups (entire filer in 8 hours?)
• can provide fast restores of single files or the entire filer
• retains CIFS attributes
• does not destroy reliability, availability, or performance.
• offers scalability

We back up 17 filers using netbackup and NDMP. The Netbackup and NDMP solution solves all of your requirements above as far as i know. Of course it's hard to determine what you consider "fast restores" ;-) . We did have to completely restore a failed filer once, and it worked like a charm (phew!).

Most of the NDMP bugs i've seen deal with Budtool. We had a few filers that we were attempting to backup with Budtool and ran into a plethora of problems. Once we switched them to Netbackup all the problems magically disappeared.

FWIW, YMMV, etc.

Graham