Thanks for the reply Arthur.
The NetApp client is a very different beast from any other Legato client I've worked with. Though the Legato ClientPak for NetApp README references an na_install executable that is supposed to install nsrexecd on the NetApp, there is no such process running on the NetApp (determined by issuing rc_toggle_basic followed by ps on the filer console while a backup was in progress). All that seems to be running on the filer is a java thread(s) related to the backup. This makes sense as the ClientPak documentation also says the it interfaces to java engine that runs on the filer.
The na_recover command actually executes on the administrative host (apparently communicating to the java engine on the filer) rather than the filer itself. There is no interactive mode available.
later... Roger
-----Original Message----- From: Arthur Darren Dunham [mailto:add@netcom.com] Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 11:42 AM To: Roger.Hackett@mms.gov Subject: Re: Legato NetApp client
We have a NetApp F760 running ONTAP 5.3.5 and the Legato NetWorker
ClientPak
for NetApp, release 5.5 that we are configuring for deployment. In my initial tests I have been able to setup the NetApp as a Legato client, schedule backups from our Legato server, do manual backups from the admin host's mount point of specific NetApp volumes and restore entire save
sets.
My problem/question concerns individual file restores. How does one determine if a specific file is in a specific save set? The Legato NetApp client docs state the you can use the mminfo command on the Legato host
and
specify file names (mminfo -c filer_name -N /vol/volx/file_name) but both empirical tests and the mminfo manpage show that the -N option is for the save set name (such as /vol/vol0 or /vol/vol1) and no individual file information is returned. The results are essentially the same as using
the
Indexes button of nwadmin, you get a list of save set names and save set ids.
Correct. mminfo peruses the media database (not the file database) and has no information about individual files.
I have been able to restore a single file (na_recover -s nsrhost -S
ssid -a /vol/vol0/qtree_name/filename) by listing each different ssid
until
the request succeeds.
Hm.. I don't have the netapp client, so I'm not sure how this differs...
The normal unix client is interactive if you don't specify a file. After cd'ing into a directory, you can 'versions filename'. It will display the differnet versions of that file that are on different tapes.
You could also do 'recover -s nsrhost -t <date>' and get back the last version of the file that was prior to that date.