Hi all

Currently we have a R200, that house around a TB of data. We are currently using Veritas 9.1 to do the backups over cifs shares, using this method our backups jobs take a very long time to complete, and I have heard that this method is not really a supported one or the preferred method. I would like to use NDMP to backup my data. I have a few questions about this method.

#1 are backup tape device is an adic scalar 24. The tape drive is a IBM ULTRIUM-TD2. Using NDMP can I hang this tape device right off the R200 and just use the "dump" command?

#2 we currently use Veritas software, can I continue to use this application if I'm using NDMP, or should I just use Dump?

#3 Can I use the dump command to do incremental backups and schedule backups.

Thanks for any information

Skip

Skip Hofmann

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