Mainly, bad.

It's really a junk product but can come in handy when it actually works properly. Forget about backing up any volumes/filesystems greater than 100Gb. It's very tempermental about with version of ONTAP you use, and has a habit of the na_nsrexec on the filer needing to be restarted a lot.

Although when it does work right, you get decent backup rates. This was Legato's half-hearted attempt to get something on the market to support Netapps when they initially decided they weren't going to do NDMP (or were sp far behind in their product development, they knew NDMP woulnd't be supported for at least 12-18 months). I think they learned their lession now, as NW 6.0 support NDMP (apparently).

I was struggling with the Client Pak for about 10 months before the size of my systems finally made me go back to NFS-mounted backups and looking at something better like Veritas, and their NDMP support.

You won't find too many Legato or Netapp people proudly endorsing using the client pak.. It really was a poor interim product.

-Scott

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Jason Ruiter wrote:

Greetings,

I'm looking into getting the Networker NetApp clientpak for my Legato networker installation. Does anyone have experience, good or bad, with this product? I have a 720 running OnTap 5.3.6R2

Thanks Jason Ruiter ERIM 734 623 2562

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