Klaus,
Would you mind briefly explaining the process you used to connect the robotics to the filer? I was unable to determine the correct internal device name of the netapp's robotics controller when I tried this.
Dave
Klaus Schoellhorn wrote:
At 09:03 29-06-00 -0700, you wrote:
Brian,
If you use NDMP-compliant backup software, then you can connect the media changer as well as the tape drive directly to the NetApp filer.
I made experience with Budtool, and from a flexibility perspective it is imho better to connect the robotics to the filer since it eliminates to install robotics kernel driver on Unix hosts, i.e. spt driver for Solaris . One could quickly change and fail-over to another admin host while maintaining the robotics control . Only ndmp software is required while robotics driver might not exists for a particular Unix flavour. Klaus