In message 19990413141027.A21139@sonic.net, Dane Jasper writes:

I'm interested in seeing NetApp work closely with backup software vendors such as Arkeia to further NDMP support. Arkeia now supports backup of the Cobalt product line, including their (non exandable, small scale) RAID-1 NA S product.

It would be great if NetApp would contact Arkeia and extend any assistance they can in the extension of the Arkeia backup tool. This type of support can only be beneficial for both companies, and end users too!

Arkeia is at http://www.knox-software.com/. Arkeia is similar to Legato's Networker product, but supports other server platforms and costs less.

BRU is another backup product where I'd love to see NDMP support included. BRU is at http://www.estinc.com/.

NetApp customers, please voice your support to NetApp if you see value in more support for NDMP.

I thought NDMP was great until I saw it break in every other ONTAP release. I'm still using it. I'm waiting for fixes to internal bugs (in 5.3). I'm feeling jaded.

And the NetApp voice mail call system just hung up on me twice while writing this email... Time to break out the secret stash of enginner numbers...

Just so I don't sound like I'm beating NetApp up too bad... Hurray for SNTP!!!! Second level trunks are awesome!!! (But the 5.3 docs concerning them suck... Have a call open to find out if I'm doing it right. Generates errors during failover, but it works.)

jason