Hi Kelly!

We are currently using Veritas Netbackup v3.2 with NDMP Extension to backup our 4 Netapp F740. Two Filers have directly attached DLT7000 Drives and the other two are backed up via GBit - LAN with NDMP 3way Backup. (We also use Library Sharing for the the two NDMP-Masters).

Throughput is about 15-20GB/h per DLT7000, and we are very pleased with that solution.

Currently we are using Veritas Netbackup v3.2 with patch 326, Our Filers have Ontap 5.3.4R2.

One Question because I´m new to Netbackup: -NDMP alternate client Restore: Restore Data backuped from Client A directly to Client B? What must I do to make this possible? -NDMP Direct Acces Recovery: Restore of single Files/Directories in a short time (Our Backup Images are currently about 100 - 150GB). What Restore times do you have? (In my case, it looks like the Filersearches the whole dump, which can take up to 8 hours). Is there any possibility to speed this up?

Thanks for any answers/ideas.

regards, Klaus Micheler

Klaus Micheler Infineon Technologies mailto:Klaus.Micheler@infineon.com

-----Original Message----- From: Kelly Wyatt Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 1:35 PM To: 'Steve Kappel' Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: RE: Backing up a filer

Is anyone actually doing 3-way NDMP backups w/ NetBackup. We have been pleased with using NBU with NDMP and directly attached drives for our filers for about 18 months... but, we are about out of capacity in our two tape libraries. Most filers have two tape drives (which we prefer), so when we install the three filers we just received, we have hit our limit... and we have three more filers on order... So, we need to either get another tape library or come up with a solution that doesn't require an entire tape library for every 5 filers.

Thanks for any input --

Kelly