Paul Benn paul.benn@netapp.com writes:

I just wanted to clarify that if a UNIX backup server is used, it must use NDMP.

Not quite -- it must use dump. Dumping via rsh instead of NDMP will also preserve CIFS attributes and 8.3 names.

You just can't preserve CIFS attributes from a Unix NFS client whereas you can preserve NFS attributes from a WinNT CIFS client.

- Dan