Hi Steve!

Thanks for the answers. Please let me ask some more questions.

- Do you know, when Netbackup v3.4 will be released? This alternate client restore is very vital to us, because the filer tends to crash, if Data is changed while Restores. One idea is to make a volume for restores only. With the current solution it had to be done on each filer, with alternate Client restore it had to be done only on one Filer

- Backing up Files without ACL´s? We also have many UNIX-Files and dont need the use of ACL´s. Is there a possibility to disable NDMP-Backup with ACLs? If possible, does this affect restore times, because the acl´s on the end of the file are not needed.

- NDMP v3: Are ther any real enhancements with this implementation and when will it be released with Veritas/Netapp?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

regards, Klaus Micheler mailto:klaus.micheler@infineon.com

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Steve Kappel [mailto:steve.kappel@raistlin.min.ov.com] Gesendet am: Montag, 14. Februar 2000 20:38 An: Klaus.Micheler@infineon.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Betreff: RE: Backing up a filer

Hi Klaus,

-NDMP alternate client Restore: Restore Data backuped from Client A directly to Client B? What must I do to make this possible?

This functionality is implemented in the upcoming NetBackup 3.4 release.

-NDMP Direct Acces Recovery: Restore of single Files/Directories in a short time (Our Backup Images are currently about 100 - 150GB). What Restore times do you have? (In my case, it looks like the Filersearches the whole dump, which can take up to 8 hours). Is there any possibility to speed this up?

Yes, the entire dump image is read by restore.

Neither OnTap or NetBackup support direct access restore in currently shipping releases. This is a complicated problem to solve in a dump-style backup.

The only suggestion I can make to improve restore speed is to breakup the backup into smaller dumps. If you are doing full volume dumps now then this may be less efficient as far as backup speed is concerned.

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