We run Netbackup here with Unix, Windows and filers. With 4.5 you can backup a master or media server via NDMP but that doesn't help you for your other machines (in 3.4 you couldn't backup master/media servres via NDMP).

You have a few options. 1) Backup the filer via NFS. However if you run CIFS you will lose all the Windows ACL information going that route. 2) Backup the filer via CIFS. This will preserve the ACL info. 3) Buy a 2nd tape drive and dedicate it to backing up the filer via NDMP.

I suppose another option would be to backup the unix/windows clients to the filer and then backup the filer via NDMP (maybe using a disk STU on the filer). Not that I would go this way though.

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 03:48:23PM -0700, Barry Lustig wrote:

I think that I'm in a bit of a quandary. I'm trying to implement backups using Netbackup 4.5 for a single filer and a handful of unix and windows clients. I have a single Overland library with a single tape drive. As far as I can tell, I have to dedicate the single tape drive to NDMP. This would preclude backing up other systems to that tape drive. Is there anyone on the list that has run into this type of a problem with Netbackup?

Thanks,

barry