The obvious performance boost would be to back it up using NDMP with direct attach tape drives. Legato actually has a pretty good NDMP backup component now, much better than NetBackup. Also, backing up over NFS loses one of the big benefits of an NDMP backup, snapshots. NFS backups do not guarantee consistency in the data whereas NDMP backups will.
~JK
devnull@adc.idt.com wrote:
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.
Thanks,
/dev/null
devnull@adc.idt.com