Bryan, You have several options, and some cost more money than others. There are several software packages that are certified with NetApps and your library. Legato, Veritas, Workstation Solutions and SyncSort are some of the options. These all have different configurations that they support, (you can find the configuration info on the various web sites) depending on where you want to put the library. All of them support backing up the filer with the library attached locally, but if you want to attach the library to a Solaris server, Workstation Solutions will support that, and is also the least expensive of the solutions listed above. Check out their website at www.worksta.com However the cheapest solution is to attach the library to the back of the filer, and use the dump and restore utility. Several things to check out are, the library needs to be HVD not single-ended. It needs to be set in sequential or stacker mode, and you need to emulate an Exabyte 8900, since the filer will not support Mammoth until the next release of software.

-----Original Message----- From: Bryan -TheBS- Smith [mailto:thebs@theseus.com] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 2:33 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Cc: thebs@theseus.com; b.j.smith@ieee.org Subject: Re-skinning the cat, might go with the F720 wo/CIFS ... -- WAS: Linux versus NetApp

Re-skinning the cat, might go with the F720 wo/CIFS ... -- WAS: Linux versus NetApp

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My boss and I took a step back and looked at the problem again. We remembered that 90% of our traffic is NFS. As such, paying an additional $8K for the CIFS support is probably not needed on the NetApp ($27K for the F720, 7x36GB, 1000Base-SX upgrade). I've had no problems with Samba on the Linux side and it's not our primary focus (we don't have a PDC BTW).

I guess the only thing now is to figure out how to backup. I have an Exabyte EZ17 (7-bay autoloader, can and does emulate an EXB-210B) with a 20/40GB Mammoth[-1] drive. I don't (and never did) think much of the Mammoth, but the new 60/150GB Mammoth-2s are actually getting good reviews, only cost $3K and will allow me to re-use my autoloader.

Again, anyone got any experiences with any backup software either on the NetApp or a NetApp agent to a backup server (like Solaris or Linux) that supports my autoloader? Dump might do though.

Thanx ...

-- TheBS

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