Kerry,
If its just a regular NetApp (not a SAN Netapp), you can put in a Fibre Channel card into the NetApp and connect it into a "tape backup" SAN so that you can use the SAN to switch in a tape drive to the filer. Very similar to just attaching a fibre-channel or SCSI tape drive directly to the NetApp.
You could then use NDMP to back up the filer to the tape drive(s) over the SAN. This assumes that your TSM backup server supports NDMP.
Works great for us.
John Clarke Bose Corporation
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-----Original Message----- From: Kerry Herschel [mailto:margaret.k.herschel@jpl.nasa.gov] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 2:51 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: access same files via SAN and NFS
Hi,
I'm interested in setting up a volume that a NFS client can write files to via an NFS mount point and our TSM backup server can backup via a SAN connection. Can I setup a volume that can be accessed by both a NFS client and a SAN client? Netapp tech support says no but when reading the documentation it sounds like I can do it. Has anyone done this?
Thanks for any input,
Kerry Herschel
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