FYI
VERITAS NetBackup NDMP fully supports (release 3.4 onward) restoring NDMP backups to a different NDMP host (same vendor of course). The general NetBackup term for this is "alternate client restore".
From: "Traitel, Eyal" eyal@netapp.com To: "Schepers, Jan" Jan.Schepers@nl.origin-it.com, toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Can you not recover a NetApp NDMP backup to another NetApp? Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 03:44:29 -0700
Jan,
I am sure this trick is not supported officially by Legato/Veritas/others, but this has been used successfully, and is VERY easy to do:
Just edit /etc/hosts file on your Legato host to point the need-to-be-recovered
filer to the IP of the one that's replacement.
As NDMP doesn't really care about that, as long as the restore path is fine...
Eyal.
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-----Original Message----- From: Schepers, Jan [mailto:Jan.Schepers@nl.origin-it.com] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:45 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Can you not recover a NetApp NDMP backup to another NetApp?
Hello list,
possibly you read the following line in the Legato's Networker 6 SysAdminGuide
The Networker Administrator Guide (6.0) shows in chapter 12 , the section on NDMP limitations the following :
NetApp Computers and NDMP Keep in mind the following limitations when you use NDMP and NetApp: * You cannot recover a NetApp NDMP backup to another NetApp. You can only recover data to the original host.
Does this mean that my faith fully daily made backups are worthless in case of a disaster?
rgds,
Yann
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