19 Oct
2000
19 Oct
'00
10:48 p.m.
Our experience has been the same. Constant vague and non-descriptive errors
(like vol:/vol0 cannot open or somesuch that Legato support was completely unable to help with) and generally a lack of confidence in the reliability of the backups. We've since gone back to NFS-based backups as well. Not as efficient as I would like, but reliability is more important than efficiency with backups.
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Mike Sphar - Sr Systems Administrator - Engineering Support Services, BOFH,
GWP, MCP, MCP+I, MCSE, BFD
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From: dmaloy@atomaintl.com [mailto:dmaloy@atomaintl.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:15 PM
To: Scott Mikusko
Cc: Jason Ruiter; 'toasters@mathworks.com'
Subject: Re: Experience with Legato Networker NetApp clientpak?
I agree. I installed it on a 740 filer and it was very hit or miss with the
backup actually working ea. night. Not good experience, would recommend
using
NFS which is the reason for my post earlier in the week.
Don Maloy
Sr. CAD Administrator
Atoma Latching Systems
19888 Haggerty Rd
Livonia, MI 48152
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Mainly, bad.
It's really a junk product but can come in handy when it actually works
properly. Forget about backing up any volumes/filesystems greater than
100Gb. It's very tempermental about with version of ONTAP you use, and has
a habit of the na_nsrexec on the filer needing to be restarted a lot.
Although when it does work right, you get decent backup rates. This was
Legato's half-hearted attempt to get something on the market to support
Netapps when they initially decided they weren't going to do NDMP (or
were sp far behind in their product development, they knew NDMP woulnd't
be supported for at least 12-18 months). I think they learned their
lession now, as NW 6.0 support NDMP (apparently).
I was struggling with the Client Pak for about 10 months before the size
of my systems finally made me go back to NFS-mounted backups and looking
at something better like Veritas, and their NDMP support.
You won't find too many Legato or Netapp people proudly endorsing using
the client pak.. It really was a poor interim product.
-Scott
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jason Ruiter wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm looking into getting the Networker NetApp clientpak for my Legato
> networker installation. Does anyone have experience, good or bad, with
this
> product? I have a 720 running OnTap 5.3.6R2
>
> Thanks
> Jason Ruiter
> ERIM
> 734 623 2562
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