Dave Hitz hitz@netapp.com writes:

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The NetApp sales engineers have a tool that is much faster than NDMP copy, and which -- I believe -- does maintain snapshots. You might want to contact an SE.

(Yes -- the tool I'm describing will be integrated back into our base software. What the SE's have is an early proto-type.)

Ummm, will it allow you to do partial copies (one directory hierarchy like ndmpcopy does) and copies from differently-sized filers?

It will do all of the snapshots and will not to subdirectory copies. It will move from a smaller filer to a same size or larger (disk capacity) filer. It will not (now) move from a larger disk capacity filer to a smaller one.

mikef