NDMP can not, at this time, be used to connect to a client other than a filer. The dump/restore mechanism is written to interface with the NMDPD on the filers. This functionality would greatly increase NDMPCopy's usefulness.

You mention rsync with an NFS transfer. Have you looked into rdist as well? I have used that utility on Sun with great success. Eitherway, it souds like you have a viable plan in place.

HTH

I need to migrate all the date from a T3 attached to SUN box to a NetApp filer. I know ndmpcopy is a great fast tool. Anybody knows way to use it for a sun-to-netapp migration..?

Any other alternatives welcome..

Needs to do this with minimum downtime. I plan to do a NFS transfer and then rsync, but looking for a faster-smarter way.

TIA

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