John> You don't want to backup through the acopia, since it's a big John> bottleneck, so you backup the Filers directly. But then you need to John> manage and track *where* your files really are stored, and that John> becomes a nightmare to deal with.

Kyle> The latest version of the F5/Acopia software (v5.0.0) introduces Kyle> a feature called File Tracking to specifically address this Kyle> issue.

This doesn't help when you do NDMP backups, does it? Also, do you *ever* trust version X.0 software? *grin* I'm not moving to CommVault 8.x or OnTap 7.3.x until they're more stable and widely tested. I need stability at work.

John