>Howevever we are thinking of just SnapMirroring the secondary SnapVault NetApp to the DR site.
When working with consultants in setting the system up, we first thought to snapmirror the production side snavault secondary to the DR site, but then we started thinking (yea, thinking is hard). In a DR we would have a snapmirrored copy of production, and, a snapmirrored snapvault copy, but there would be no tie between them. We want the DR site to "just work". THis meant we wanted the DR snapvault relationship to be working form the DR copy of the data. (did any of that make sense?) >A couple of questions though: >- How do you do single file restores? As far as I understand snapvault works at qtree level, so what happens when you need >to restore a file? I wish I understood snapvault better. It's my understanding is the same as yours - it's only a qtree level restore. What you would do is run snapshots on the production volume (hourly, daily, weekly, whatever) from which individual files could be restored (right click in windows, or, from the snapshot dir), and, snapvault it to your snapvault filer for big restores if needed. Individual files could also be copied from a mounted snapvaulted qtree. The Toasters mailing list for NetApp systems can provide excellent help: http://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters Rick From: Nora <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 11/12/2013 07:00 AM Subject: Can you abandon conventional NDMP backups for SnapVault? Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> Hello, Thanks for all the replies! I've had a pretty bad experience with SnapDiff. We engaged IBM several times to help us sort out our NDMP backups, and all they could suggest was to use SnapDiff. So I tested it, and it turns out it cannot be used for NetApp in cluster mode! It can only be used for NetApp in 7-mode. So there goes SnapDiff, so we've had to depend on trying to run NDMP. That's why we're thinking of SnapVault now. Richard, thanks for sharing your design. It is similar to what we are considering. Howevever we are thinking of just SnapMirroring the secondary SnapVault NetApp to the DR site. A couple of questions though: - How do you do single file restores? As far as I understand snapvault works at qtree level, so what happens when you need to restore a file? - Do you do any tape outs with SnapVault? Does it need to be scripted separately ? Thanks! +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the original message.
