Question #2 has to do with Direct Access Restore which is something Netapp is working on with the NDMP standards group. It allows you to jump directly to the position on the media where a file is located. Right now a restore will have to read sequentially from the beginning of a dump to the position of the desired file.

NOTE: Your backup software (we're using Veritas Netbackup) will also have to support DAR. Veritas is working on it.

-Steve gremban@ti.com

"Jeremy A. Rosengren" wrote:

I'm not sure I understand your first question.

As far as your second question, you can restored individual files using Veritas NDMP. You can only restore directories. So, find the directory that contains the file, and restore that. I usually restore to an alternate location because of this. Then I copy the file I really wanted to restore back to the original location and delete the rest.

-- jeremy

-- Jeremy A. Rosengren jeremy@rosengren.org

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 jmiddlebrooks@datalink.com wrote:

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If anybody has dug deep into using Veritas Netbackup NDMP to backup the filer.

1. Since NDMP uses dump, if you loose tape 5 of 8 does that mean you loose

the entire backup / restore?

2. Can you restore file X without spanning all tapes that are part of the

dump?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.