Folks,

I'm studying up on networker-6.1.1, in preparation for converting from BudTool to NetWorker, and according to the docs, there are some pretty serious (to me) limitations in Networker's NDMP support. I would very much like to hear from anyone out there who is already using this backup software with their NetApp (or with other NDMP devices), so I can get a better idea about what's ahead for us.

Oh, you're probably going to ask me anyway, so here's my list of things that NetWorker NDMP cannot do, which I can currently do with BudTool:

(1) Cannot clone (e.g. for offsite storage) NDMP backups.

(2) Cannot rename-on-recover; Non-destructive save-set recovery is not supported; It looks like you might be able to work around this by using a directed recovery (i.e. to non-original location), although they indicate this is used to restore to a different NDMP host.

(3) Cannot backup to a remote (non-NDMP) tape device, unless you buy an extra software module (SnapImage, which also does other stuff).

(4) Cannot send NDMP backups to a filesystem device (not even if you have SnapImage).

(5) Must have separate (tape) pools for NDMP and non-NDMP backups.

Suggestions, corrections, and comments are welcome.

Regards,