NDMP is a backup control protocol which is industry-standard, but it does not define data format. It's only designed to have one backup device tell another backup device to back itself up, or restore itself. It allows products like CommVault to contact a NetApp, and say "Hi there, do a backup of path X and send it to device Y" and then sit back and wait.
You actually have 2 formats that you can select with ONTAP. One of them is native snapmirror format, which obviously can't be read by anything else, and the other format is similar to ufs dump.
There was a time when Solaris could read ONTAP dump format, although permissions would all be lost, but that's close to 6 years since I tried that. I would expect the formats have diverged enough that it won't work any longer.
-----Original Message----- From: toasters-bounces@teaparty.net [mailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net] On Behalf Of John Stoffel Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 2:05 AM To: Mike Horwath Cc: Toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: ndmpcopy from netapp to oracle zs3?
Mike> Log into the ZS3 system. Mike> rsh <netapp> dump 0f - /vol/volumename | (cd destination ; restore Mike> rf -)
Mike> Stupid but would get your copy over.
Mike> Using rsh reduces CPU load on the NeApp controller.
Have you actually tried doing this? The format of Netapp dump and ZS3 restore aren't compatible in my understanding. Luckily, I do have a Solaris 10 ZFS system I can use for testing tomorrow if I get a chance to double check.
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