OnTap uses dump to write the data to tape (via NDMP). You can use a Solaris machine and ufsrestore to recover data off of tape. That's the only nonNetApp platform I've tried to recover data from a NetApp tape.
I think the only option (regardless of the backup software) is to overwrite files for NDMP, so you have to redirect to an alternate directory or NDMP host if you don't want to clobber your existing files (redirects work fine on Veritas NetBackup).
Your other option is not use NDMP to backup your filer. Backup via NFS or CIFS (CIFS if you have ACLs you want preserved).
I'd be surprised if Backup Express couldn't redirect though.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:33:25PM -0600, Maglinger, Paul wrote:
Greetings to all...
Due to problems getting Veritas BackupExec 9.0 to play nicely with our 740 filer (can see the volumes and shares, but they are greyed out... tried using User Defined Selection and would get a pop-up saying it couldn't access the files). So, as we also use SyncSort Backup Express, we are trying to use NDMP, and now we come to the issue. By using NDMP, it doesn't appear that we can redirect our restores so our only choice is to restore over the top of the existing files. This raises another issue in that it appears that we couldn't do a restore to any other type machine than a Network Applicance NAS. We were hoping that in a disaster recovery situation, we could restore to Intel machine but I don't see where that's possible using NDMP. Is there a workaround for this? Can I get some insight here?
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