Got word from Vertias that putting the /usr/openv filesystem itself on NFS was NOT supported. However, you could backup the database to a NFS disk without issue....

~JK

Manny Kaiser wrote:

Has anyone placed the Veritas Netbackup database on an NFS mounted file system? More specifically on a netapp? I was just told by Veritas that they do not recommend doing this because NFS is unreliable. Any feedback would be helpful.