Comrades,
Just received the new client pak for Netapps. Much to my chagrin, I find out it doesn't support the F500 series filers. Anyone know why this is the case?
And after upgrading all my systems to 5.2.3 three weeks ago, I find out I need to upgrade to at least 5.3.2. Lovely. And I see that the client does not allow backups of the snapshots, which is what I'm currently writing to tape.
Apart from these annoying issues, what does anyone have to say about the client software for the Netapp? I have a system here that is taking nearly 40 hours to do a full backup, and 20 hours for incrementals to backup via NFS mounts to the backup server. I'm hoping that the client pak will help improve the time it takes to get my filers backed up. The filers themselves are not too terribly busy, I just have very large file systems.
Anyone have any stats on the performance of the client software vs NFS mounting the filers to a backup server?
Curious.
Thanks!
-Scott
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