Paul,

Currently using BEX 5.1.c/NDMP to back up filers. Have been able to redir restores of file systems/folders or individual files, however there are a few gotchas. The restore must go to a destination that has the same file system/security type of the original source. Thus if you back up CIFS shares that use Windows security you must restore to a destination that also has Windows security and it must be a "local" device, ie, you can't restore to a CIFS mounted share on a Windows box. Conversely, you cannot restore to a mounted export on a UNIX box. Supposely this is going to fixed in a later release of BEX, not sure if it will be incorporated in 5.2 coming out late spring/summer this year.

Don Garavito Storage Team Lead OUSD(ATL) Pentagon

-----Original Message----- From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:PMAGLINGER@scvl.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 6:33 PM To: 'NetApps list server' Subject: Using SyncSort Backup Express NDMP on 740 filer

Greetings to all...

Due to problems getting Veritas BackupExec 9.0 to play nicely with our 740 filer (can see the volumes and shares, but they are greyed out... tried using User Defined Selection and would get a pop-up saying it couldn't access the files). So, as we also use SyncSort Backup Express, we are trying to use NDMP, and now we come to the issue. By using NDMP, it doesn't appear that we can redirect our restores so our only choice is to restore over the top of the existing files. This raises another issue in that it appears that we couldn't do a restore to any other type machine than a Network Applicance NAS. We were hoping that in a disaster recovery situation, we could restore to Intel machine but I don't see where that's possible using NDMP. Is there a workaround for this? Can I get some insight here?

Our glory is not in never falling, but rising every time we fall.

Paul Maglinger, A+, CA, CCA, CET, MCSE Systems Administrator Shoe Carnival Inc. (812)867-4674 pmaglinger@scvl.com