David> Our backup strategy is currently to back up over NFS to a Sun David> server running Veritas Netbackup with a DLT tape jukebox on it. David> It works but it not ideal. We are probably going to buy a David> couple more jukeboxes, hang them off the F740s and use NDMP to David> do backups. My only concern is that I've heard rumblings in David> this mail list that NDMP has a few problems.
We do the same thing here, but use Legato Networker for the backup software. Works fine in general.
We're planning on moving to the Legato NDMP software and license when it's been known to work, if only to allow us to break our indexes down in size. Our central backup servers have 6+Gb indexes because of the toasters.
Short Solution:
mount the filer with NFS to the backup server and do the dumps that way. Use a private network if you can.
John John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548 john.stoffel@ascend.com - http://www.ascend.com