CIFS and NFS won't suffice if you care about your ACL's. The best example I've seen is a customer bought enough NetApp capacity to hold (a) 7-days of \UsrData and (b) 14 days of \GrpData; check out the SnapShot feature (it stores files that become inactive during the NetApp "daily incrementals" in a read-only directory, accessible under the "~snapshot" directory in the user's home directory (in the case of a person's \UsrData stuff).
This same customer is now planning for the new R100 as a remote-site, read-only mirror -- which enhances his site DR recoverability, and has a cool procedure for "seeding" the initial "full" using tapes (rather than sending it across the network). So, in Bay Area, at least, it seems the NetApp sales folks have learned to sell double (or more) the needed capacity -- so, recent-term backup data is immediately available without a tape mount. Now, this same customer is (also) looking to replace all their 3575 libraries (8 or 10) with LTO (IBM) drives inside an STK-L700E, 700 slot silo.... somewhat off-topic, my segue into pointing out the need to ALSO re-think your solution when considering the huge capacities of latest media (LTO at 100 GB, 9940A at 60 GB, 3590-K at 40 GB -- it continues). NetApp for day-to-day restores (from ~snapshot), LTO for removable media (onsite + offsite copies, for DR and protection from media failures). Don France Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390 San Jose, Ca (408) 257-3037 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Seay, Paul Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 11:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New and probably a simple question.... In addition to backing up using the NDMP interface you can backup the standard client backup way through a share. However, the functionality to be able to restore files from the image is coming. I think within a year. This was discussed in San Francisco at the SHARE meeting a couple of weeks ago. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -----Original Message----- From: Wheelock, Michael D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 11:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New and probably a simple question.... Hi, We are looking at a TSM solution here at our facility. We are also looking at reorganizing our file shares onto a Network Appliance platform. From a thorough reading of the TSM 5.1 manuals, it seems that TDP for NDMP only supports image backups. Needless to say on a busy fileserver that isn't going to fly. While it might be a good disaster recovery solution, it is not the right one for day to day operations. My question is, how do most people back these things up? Do you use a CIFS or NFS share and backup that way? Or is there something I am missing? Thanks in advance. Michael Wheelock Integris Health of Oklahoma
