Most of the folks we deal with have a lot of problems with NDMP. It would certainly be helpful if you could provide the list with some of your tricks to make NDMP work consistently.

--- Mike Ball MBall@datalink.com wrote:

Go with NDMP on Legato. As others stated, NDMP and Legato work very well. I have setup a few environments with Legato Networker and NDMP via Netapp. The nice thing about NDMP is you directly dump off the Netapp to tape which is very quick. It will push LTO and SDLT tape drives to the full performance capabilities. In addition, the CPU overhead required to do a NDMP backup vs over NFS is much lower on the Netapp. Keep in mind though that the tape drives dedicated to the Netapp for NDMP can not be shared by other non Netapp Legato clients/storage nodes/servers (can be shared by other Netapps though). Mike

-----Original Message----- From: devnull@adc.idt.com [mailto:devnull@adc.idt.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:57 AM To: Toasters (E-mail) Subject: Legato Backups.

Dear Toasters,

I was wondering if any of you guys were using Legato for backing up your NetApps. I currently have 2 filers that i am backing up to a Legato server running Solaris 2.8 over NFS. I mount the NetApp volumes onto the legato server and then backup those mount points.

I am not sure this is the best thing to do in terms of performance.

Is there an alternate, easier solution.

Thanks,

/dev/null

devnull@adc.idt.com

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