We use BakBone NetVault with NDMP plugin, it works fantastic and was wery easy to implement. The nicest thing is that we can backup other servers and and clients via NDMP to Filer attached LTO. I personaly tested Legato, Veritas, OmniBack and BakBone. BakBone NetVault won because NDMP implementation, simplicity and ability to backup other clients.

Uros

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Ball" MBall@datalink.com To: devnull@adc.idt.com; "Toasters (E-mail)" toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 9:23 PM Subject: RE: Legato Backups.

Go with NDMP on Legato. As others stated, NDMP and Legato work very well.

I

have setup a few environments with Legato Networker and NDMP via Netapp.

The

nice thing about NDMP is you directly dump off the Netapp to tape which is very quick. It will push LTO and SDLT tape drives to the full performance capabilities. In addition, the CPU overhead required to do a NDMP backup

vs

over NFS is much lower on the Netapp. Keep in mind though that the tape drives dedicated to the Netapp for NDMP can not be shared by other non Netapp Legato clients/storage nodes/servers (can be shared by other

Netapps

though). Mike

-----Original Message----- From: devnull@adc.idt.com [mailto:devnull@adc.idt.com] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:57 AM To: Toasters (E-mail) Subject: Legato Backups.

Dear Toasters,

I was wondering if any of you guys were using Legato for backing up your NetApps. I currently have 2 filers that i am backing up to a Legato server running Solaris 2.8 over NFS. I mount the NetApp volumes onto the legato server and then backup those mount points.

I am not sure this is the best thing to do in terms of performance.

Is there an alternate, easier solution.

Thanks,

/dev/null

devnull@adc.idt.com