Well, I wasnt specifically referring to backups. However, I had problems sharing the snapshot dir as a hidden share for faster restores from snapshot. Sometimes it would work, sometimes it will not let you copy the file out with a share error. I had to stop the share and make it visible to get the restores to work correctly.

-----Original Message----- From: Jordan Share [mailto:iso9@phantasticant.com] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 3:23 PM To: Honeycutt, Michael; Muhlestein, Mark; NetApp List Cc: Benn, Paul Subject: RE: Anyone out there do backups via a share?

What do you mean by "share errors" ? I did one backup, and it seemed to go fine.

Thanks, Jordan

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Honeycutt, Michael Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 5:10 AM To: 'Jordan Share'; Muhlestein, Mark; NetApp List Cc: Benn, Paul Subject: RE: Anyone out there do backups via a share?

The only thing about sharing the snapshot is you may get share errors when trying to pull files out. Just an FYI!

-----Original Message----- From: Jordan Share [mailto:iso9@phantasticant.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:26 PM To: Muhlestein, Mark; NetApp List Cc: Benn, Paul Subject: RE: Anyone out there do backups via a share?

Super-sweet.

Thanks very much for this pointer. I didn't realize you could create a share of a snapshot. I just did a trial run, and everything works smoothly.

Oh, I did have to specify a user:password in the rsh command. This is not indicated in that URL that you sent. The URL only shows "rsh -l root filer-command-here", whereas I had to use "rsh -l root:password filer-command-here".

Jordan

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of Muhlestein, Mark Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:56 PM To: 'Jordan Share'; NetApp List Cc: Benn, Paul Subject: RE: Anyone out there do backups via a share?

You should create a share on the snapshot. See the example in section 5 of

http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3052.html

Mark

-----Original Message----- From: Jordan Share [mailto:iso9@phantasticant.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 5:58 PM To: NetApp List Subject: Anyone out there do backups via a share?

So, does anyone out there do backups via a share?

What I've been doing is mapping a drive to the appropriate place, then backing up from the ~snapshot/nightly.0/ directory. Then I found out that this is quite a pain to restore, since my backup software (Backup Exec) insists on either using an identical tree structure (which fails, because ~snapshot is read-only) or no tree structure at all (as far as I can tell).

Is there a better way? It'd be sweet to be able to restore directly to the filer. :)

The resources I have are: Treefrog tape library attached to Win2k box with Backup Exec 8.6 (with remote-server-backup license whatnot).

Any ideas? I definitely can't use NDMP, or attach directly to the filer, because then we'd need another filer to restore to (which is not a viable option for us at this time. :( )

Thanks, Jordan