We use legato to backup over NFS mounts and it works perfectly. Note: must be hard mounts, not automounter.

In fact, we have just installed and R100 and R150 to do staging via legato. The idea being we suck the data on to the R100 quickly and then move it onto tape at our leisure. Snapvault is going to fit in there for fast retrieval. The bonus is that it can be used just like normal Legato restores using the Disk Backup/NetApp Nearstore module for Legato.

Aaron

-----Original Message----- From: Matt Musgrove [mailto:matt.musgrove@thales-is.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 7:06 PM To: Gavin Kelman Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: Legato and NDMP

Gavin Kelman wrote:

We've just received a nice new F825, which we're trying to integrate into our exsiting Legato Networker backup system. I've been speaking to our Legato support, but they're not getting very far, and each day that passes is another day for us without backups.

We have a Quantum ATL1500 jukebox directly attached (Robot controller and one drive) to a Sun box, which is a Legato storage node. The 2nd SCSI

drive

is connected to the back of our F825, which picks it up fine, and is configured as an NDMP device in Networker.

Now, the problem is, Networker complains that it can't establish an NDMP connection to the F825, even tho NDMP is enabled on the F825, and I've double-checked the username is root and the password is correct.

Attempting

to do an inventory in nwadmin fails on either device in the jukebox.

As well as setting the root password under "Client Setup" it needs be be set at "Media > Devices". This caught me out after I changed the root password on my filer last week.

Also, NDMP doesn't do incrementals the normal way, so I was thinking of just backing up the F825 over the NFS mounts, but I hear that's not a good idea with Legato.

I set my schedules to do levels 1,2,3,4. etc in the days after a full (level 0) which works fine for me. You can backup over the NFS mounts, I know some people do that.

Matt