Hello All! I am very conflicted about how to use NDMP backups for my environment. Here is our config:
TSM AIX 5.2.2.5 server EMC NS704G with 3 datamovers and 1 failover Windows 2003 TSM Client at 5.3.0 I was wondering if we will have to mount the filesystems on a Windows server and just back the filesystems up as a regular server through TSM instead of using NDMP backups? We had wanted to use NDMP backups for offsite/DR recovery and use the 7 days of the EMC snaps for onsite recovery, but we realized that if a customer wants an individual file restored back more than 7 days ago we would have to revert to the NDMP backups, which we plan to send offsite for DR purposes. Now, this isn't within a copy pool, but within a sequential tape pool that I would just have to query the tapes - update them to offsite - then send them to our vaulting service center. My next issue is due to the fact that you cannot make a copy of the NDMP backup we would be forced to bring that tape back onsite for the restore of the file. We are then faced with the situation of knowing which tape is needed to be requested from our vaulting service to restore the file to our gateway filesystem? We were using the toc and the Windows client gui to due individual file level restore and cannot see how we would view what tape is required? Thank you very much for any help/guidance you have with this issue! The idea of NDMP backups is very new and confusing and I am not quite sure that this is what our environment wants/needs. Thanks again! ******************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************
