In article 199801131829.MAA18731@vortex.more.net, David Drum david@more.net wrote:

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I was wondering if anyone uses amanda to backup their NetApp(s)?

Jan-Pieter> Yup, we do. At least, we used to, until yesterday :) The Jan-Pieter> load on the netapp during phase I of the dump is Jan-Pieter> prohibitively high, and consequently makes our webserver Jan-Pieter> very slow... we're currently rethinking things.

We're doing something similar, though in our case we modified amanda itself to understand devices like /@filer1 and understand the output of NetApp dump, rather than replacing dump. Works great, though I have the same concerns as you about the cost of amanda's dump estimates. (Though the cost of creating a snapshot doesn't seem significant for us.)

I'd be interested in hearing what solution you come up with. -- Alan