Brian Tao wrote:

What do people do for enterprise-wide Netapp backups?  It's nice

to plug in a big tape drive into the dedicated SCSI port on each filer, but management becomes a hassle, and the hardware itself gets pretty expensive. If you centralize everything to a backup server and do dumps over the network, what do you use to manage the scheduling and auditing of the tapes? Is there a way to get Amanda to work with a bunch of Netapps? Anyone using NDMP-based tools? -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca) "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"

I am using Netbackup from Veritas (OpenVision) to backup 21 Netapps over NFS on an ultra2 to two DLT7000 drives in an STK9710 tape library.

I multiplex the backups of 3 Unix workstations (switched ethernet), 4 Auspex fileservers (fddi), 4 NT desktops (ethernet), and 1 Netapp to the two tape drives. The throughput of the Netapp is about 5GB/hour. The ultra2 is attached to 2 fddi connections, one goes to the fileservers, the other goes to the hubs where the workstations attach.

There are currently 342 Unix workstations, 4 Auspex fileservers, 131 NT desktops/laptops, and 21 Netapps scheduled for backups.

I hear that Netbackup will have support for NDMP early next year.

regards, Steve Gremban gremban@ti.com