On Thu, 1 Mar 2012, Jeff Cleverley wrote:
Jeff
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Tom Yates madhatter@teaparty.net wrote:
Is there anyone out there backing up a toaster *not* using a commercial NDMP-compliant product (eg, Netbackup)? How do you do it? Do I have any options besides (a) direct-attach a dedicated tape drive or (b) commercial NDMP-enabled software, which will enable me to get both UNIX-specific information and CIFS-specific information onto tape safely?
Thanks for any light anyone can shed.
Tom,
We currently backup a small subset of data on a filer by using a nfs mount on a unix system. Then we backup the file system on the unix box. This particular one is Data Protector, but you could use virtually anything to back it up. No ndmp required.
We also use NFS for backups, and the loss of other metadata is not a concern for us. However, checking for data-last-written by NFS is quite slow over millions of files so an open source NDMP solution might be attractive to us, if one were available and if it reduced that overhead. As it is, checking for new and changed files consumes the vast majority of backup time.
Daniel Feenberg NBER
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