Thank you for your quick response. I appreciate the reply and advice. However, I am under certain restraints in that there is no wish or desire to purchase any new software and the only stated purpose for the tape backups is for disaster recovery purposes. I was hoping to find out what would be the most efficient way to do multiple volume backups so that I could determine the most efficient way in which to label and record the contents of the tapes.

Thanks!!!

Dan

At 10:04 AM 12/16/2003, Andrew Siegel wrote:

You will grow old fast waiting for restores done from raw NetApp dumps. The entire tape must be scanned. This can take hours, or even days for multi-volume dumps. Most modern backup utilities can directly position the tape to the point where the data occurs.

We use Reliaty Backup (formerly Workstation Solutions Quick Restore, soon to be Oracle Backup) and we couldn't be happier. We barely survived two years of Veritas Netbackup, and we evaluated a few other products before finding Reliaty.

They were acquired by Oracle recently, and they are in flux. The current web site is: http://otn.oracle.com/deploy/availability/Reliaty

-- Andrew Siegel Head of Systems Blue Sky Studios, Inc. 44 South Broadway, 17th floor White Plains, NY 10601 914-259-6336 direct 914-259-6500 main 914-259-6499 fax abs@blueskystudios.com

Dan Nowak wrote:

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All, As I am fairly new to Network Appliances, I would like your opinions on the best method for backing up a larger system. I am using a spectralogic 245 tape jukebox in stacker mode. I am trying to backup two separate volumes in utilizing a no-rewind device. As we are only in the testing mode, there is currently not that much data to back up, however when in full production, we fully expect a 1000+ users with a disk quota of 1 gig. We are not using any third party application such as Veritas or Legato Networker and are only using the dump and restore commands and the options associated with them. The NetApp documentation really is not that informative and I thought maybe some of the more experienced users out there may have some helpful suggestions. Thank you in advance for any advice, Dan