RE: Can you not recover a NetApp NDMP backup to another NetApp? - toasters

20 Apr 2001


      Jan,
I am sure this trick is not supported officially by Legato/Veritas/others,
but this has been used successfully, and is VERY easy to do:
Just edit /etc/hosts file on your Legato host to point the need-to-be-recovered filer to the IP of the one that's replacement.
As NDMP doesn't really care about that, as long as the restore path is fine...
Eyal.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Schepers, Jan [mailto:Jan.Schepers@nl.origin-it.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 11:45 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Can you not recover a NetApp NDMP backup to another NetApp?
Hello list,
possibly you read the following line in the Legato's Networker 6
SysAdminGuide
The Networker Administrator Guide (6.0) shows in chapter 12 , 
the section on NDMP limitations the following :
NetApp Computers and NDMP
    	Keep in mind the following limitations when 
    	you use NDMP and NetApp:
    	* You cannot recover a NetApp NDMP backup to 
    		another NetApp. You can only recover data 
    		to the original host.
Does this mean that my faith fully daily made backups are
worthless in case of a disaster?
rgds,
Yann