Hi Bruce,

I still foresee a role for NDMP in a hybrid NAS/SAN solution:

1. Scheduling backups 2. Maintaining catalog of backed up images 3. Changing tapes within a library

Cheers, Grant

-----Original Message----- From: sirbruce@ix.netcom.com [mailto:sirbruce@ix.netcom.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 9:47 PM To: michael.marchi@netapp.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: NetApp/NDMP

On 08/04/99 15:27:17 you wrote:

NDMP is the strategic direction for backup at Network Appliance. We see NDMP as a winner for Network Attached Storage (NAS) vendors and ultimately we think this could also be very prevalent in Storage Area Network (SAN) environments too.

When Netapp has a hybrid NAS/SAN solution, I would expect straight "local" backup to a tape device on the SAN to be an option, via traditional dump, without NDMP involved.

Bruce