So, does anyone out there do backups via a share?

What I've been doing is mapping a drive to the appropriate place, then backing up from the ~snapshot/nightly.0/ directory. Then I found out that this is quite a pain to restore, since my backup software (Backup Exec) insists on either using an identical tree structure (which fails, because ~snapshot is read-only) or no tree structure at all (as far as I can tell).

Is there a better way? It'd be sweet to be able to restore directly to the filer. :)

The resources I have are: Treefrog tape library attached to Win2k box with Backup Exec 8.6 (with remote-server-backup license whatnot).

Any ideas? I definitely can't use NDMP, or attach directly to the filer, because then we'd need another filer to restore to (which is not a viable option for us at this time. :( )

Thanks, Jordan