On Friday, September 20, 2002 07:41:18 AM -0400 "Paul J. Bell" paul.bell@rbccm.com wrote: +------ | have you every tried to restore files backed up via nfs mounts? [...] | > Technically speaking (as we found out and are correcting) this is an | > unsupported Legato configuration. They'll not help you out if there is | > an issue. I consider this to be a marketing ploy as much as anything | > to sell NDMP licences. | > | > Legato's position is that they do not support ANY backup of NFS attached | > mounts (whether filer or another server). | > | > Practically speaking it works, but sometimes the load on the backup | > servers is just too great and a few things "pop loose" for the users. | > | > Peter | > | > -----Original Message----- | > From: devnull@adc.idt.com [mailto:devnull@adc.idt.com] | > Sent: 19 September 2002 14:57 | > To: Toasters (E-mail) | > Subject: Legato Backups. | > | > Dear Toasters, | > | > I was wondering if any of you guys were using Legato for backing up your | > NetApps. I currently have 2 filers that i am backing up to a Legato | > server running Solaris 2.8 over NFS. I mount the NetApp volumes onto | > the legato server and then backup those mount points. | > | > I am not sure this is the best thing to do in terms of performance. | > | > Is there an alternate, easier solution. +-----X8
NFS restores work quite well, the major problem that you are likely to encounter is that if recover detects that you are restoring to an nfs server then it believes that the nfs server is the client, it isn't that hard to work around but it is necessary.
Before changing to ndmp remember that ndmp backups cannot be cloned and that ndmp backups are not incremental. There are also some catches with restores though they are minor.
/Michael -- This space intentionally left non-blank.