On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Benjy Feen wrote:
Wow, I check my mail and in two consecutive e-mails I lose two clicks of faith in NetApps. Are these critical NDMP problems limited to 5.3.X, or does 5.2.X have issues I should know about? Is thered a 5.3 release that gives me the NDMP functionality I need without giving me the NDMP bugs I don't?
Does NetApp have any kind of document, internal or external, of the form: "How to use NDMP with NetBackup 3.2 without making your filers reboot randomly, or refuse backups, or catch fire"?
This is exactly why I moved away from using NDMP, and why I would like to find a backup solution that doesn't require it. Just a few days ago, when I mentioned this, NetApp went on and on about how they understood they had a problem and worked really hard to fix it and how wonderful the new NDMP code written in JAVA was. And then we see these problems.
I have little faith in NetApp's ability to properly impliment this protocol. Backups are the single most important function I manage as an administrator, and NetApp seems hell bent on making that process a nightmare for me, rather than providing me with a rock solid solution.
-ste