Hi Mike
GX maybe the AFS flavor from NetApp. http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/TechTalk/?permalink=ONTAP-GX-151-Past-and-Futur...
On the other hand, if you're looking for something _free_, try http://www.openafs.org/.
AFS is killer replacement for NFS if you have lots of many small files that get constantly updated. Of course, not to mention, doing away with stale file handles as well.
regards rohit
Sphar, Mike wrote:
Just throwing a question out there curious to hear people's thoughts or experiences. Every time I end up dealing with hundreds of stale file handles because of a server move/change I become increasingly annoyed by the stateless nature of NFS and think to myself "Maybe this time I'll finally start seriously looking at AFS."
Other than lots of other ways an AFS deployment could be complicated, I wonder how if at all a Netapp can be part of an AFS deployment?
Also feel free to tell me how using AFS is crazy in general and I should just accept my stale file handles.
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Hi,
Does anyone has an experience in configuring a native FC Quantum PX502 Tape Library to a R200 through a Brocade FC switch? I'm trying to get this setup configured by using only "dump" utility in DataOntap and without using a third party backup software to manage the library module.
R200 can see the both Library module & the tape drive. If I issue the "dump" command directly to device "st0" (drive) i can take backup's but i'm clueless on how to get use of the library module "mc0" to do the library management + obtain backup's.
Has anyone currently using a Quantum PX502 Native FC library with a R200? (without using a third party backup software like Veritas Netbackup)
Brian,
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You might be out of luck with standard tools. DUMP can work with an un-intelligent library. If you put the library into "sequential" mode (if it exists...many new libraries do not have this, like my ADIC i500)
Then when you dump, you specify the unload/reload device: urst0a (or whatever the number/letter happens to be)
I do recall seeing some free ndmp library tools that can be integrated into dump scripts that also work with the seqential mode on tape libraries.
good luck.
On 12/14/06, Brian Pascal brian@kbsl.lk wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone has an experience in configuring a native FC Quantum PX502 Tape Library to a R200 through a Brocade FC switch? I'm trying to get this setup configured by using only "dump" utility in DataOntap and without using a third party backup software to manage the library module.
R200 can see the both Library module & the tape drive. If I issue the "dump" command directly to device "st0" (drive) i can take backup's but i'm clueless on how to get use of the library module "mc0" to do the library management + obtain backup's.
Has anyone currently using a Quantum PX502 Native FC library with a R200? (without using a third party backup software like Veritas Netbackup)
Brian,
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We use ndmjob to manipulate the ADIC Scalar 100 tape library on our NetApp R100.
http://www.traakan.com/ndmjob/
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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:12:35 -0500 From: tmac tmacmd@gmail.com To: "Brian Pascal" brian@kbsl.lk Subject: Re: Quantum Tape Library with R200 Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
You might be out of luck with standard tools. DUMP can work with an un-intelligent library. If you put the library into "sequential" mode (if it exists...many new libraries do not have this, like my ADIC i500)
Then when you dump, you specify the unload/reload device: urst0a (or whatever the number/letter happens to be)
I do recall seeing some free ndmp library tools that can be integrated into dump scripts that also work with the seqential mode on tape libraries.
good luck.
On 12/14/06, Brian Pascal brian@kbsl.lk wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone has an experience in configuring a native FC Quantum PX502 Tape Library to a R200 through a Brocade FC switch? I'm trying to get this setup configured by using only "dump" utility in DataOntap and without using a third party backup software to manage the library module.
R200 can see the both Library module & the tape drive. If I issue the "dump" command directly to device "st0" (drive) i can take backup's but i'm clueless on how to get use of the library module "mc0" to do the library management + obtain backup's.
Has anyone currently using a Quantum PX502 Native FC library with a R200? (without using a third party backup software like Veritas Netbackup)
Brian,
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Brian> Does anyone has an experience in configuring a native FC Brian> Quantum PX502 Tape Library to a R200 through a Brocade FC Brian> switch? I'm trying to get this setup configured by using only Brian> "dump" utility in DataOntap and without using a third party Brian> backup software to manage the library module.
I think you're out of luck, but if you're trying to do this on the cheap, can you do the following:
- hook up the Library to another FC host running Unix (linux, solaris, whatever), and talk to it with the 'mtx' tools?
That might be the way to go here.
Brian> R200 can see the both Library module & the tape drive. If I Brian> issue the "dump" command directly to device "st0" (drive) i can Brian> take backup's but i'm clueless on how to get use of the library Brian> module "mc0" to do the library management + obtain backup's.
I don't think the NetApp has any clues on how to do this. In general, you have to have a master host which talks to the library.
In your case, you'll need to do some hairy scripting to handle the case where a tape fills up during the dump and it stops and asks you for the next tape. Do able, but prone to problems.
Brian> Has anyone currently using a Quantum PX502 Native FC library Brian> with a R200? (without using a third party backup software like Brian> Veritas Netbackup)
Is there any reason why you don't want to use third party software? There are other options out there, such as 'bacula' (http://www.bacula.org) which does a great job, though in this case it won't (not so much can't, but hasn't been implemented yet...) do what you want, which is to dump directly to tape from the NetApp.
Good luck!
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