Chris,
This is remarkably simple, as with most NetApp-related things ... just check out the ndmpcopy command in the filer documentation.
If you don't have your filer yet and don't have access to the NOW website, I'm sure someone here would post the relevant pages.
You could also Google for it, e.g.
http://ecserv1.uwaterloo.ca/netapp/man/man1/na_ndmpcopy.1.html
hth
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Shenton" Chris.Shenton@hq.nasa.gov To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 2:54 PM Subject: Newbie: simple NetApp -> NetApp backup, sans Legato et al?
Please excuse my ignorance, we're just about to buy a Filer or two but I don't have any hands-on experience yet.
We're looking at a first filer with about 2.5TB and my understanding is we could not do a tape backup overnight with only a single-drive tape subsystem. At this time, we would prefer not to invest in something like Legato to intelligently drive a multi-drive jukebox like the Spectralogic series, though this should be able to dump the full capacity overnight. ("enterprise backup" is down the road).
Instead, I was considering getting a second NetApp (probably refurb with transferable license) and backing up the first to the second. This seems surprisingly cost-effective. (I'd love to do SnapMirror but it's surprisingly cost-prohibitive.)-:
Is there a way to natively run dumps from one NetApp to another without Legato-ish middleware? without an intermediary client box doing NFS/CIFS mounts? (we need to preserve both filesystem attributes).
Is this a plain stooopid idea? Any better ones?
Again, I'm hoping to avoid jumping into something Legato-esque at this point -- and just do something cheap and reusable like another NetApp -- because we'll be looking into a more comprehensive backup solution later.
Thanks, and sorry for my ignorance. Pointers to docs welcomed.
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