Alexander Strauss wrote:
Jeff, Glen,
- Netapps are impossible to back up
Not so. There are many ways to backup a filer. The fasted by far is direct attached SCSI though. If investing in large filers, one might consider the use of DLT for backups.
In a larger environment you probably don't want to backup each fileserver separately with an attached DLT. And as NetApp doesn't support a reasonable NDMP version which allows backup over the net the only way to do a central backup is through NFS - not a very smart solution.
backing up large volumes across an NFS mount is highly inefficient. We are using a Storage Tech tape silo and Veritas backup solution. With the large tape system, we are able to directly connect DLT 7000 to the filers. When implementing high end storage solutions one must also implement high end backup solutions.
-gdg