Yep, that's it, at least from my understanding. We used to be an all NetApp shop here, and have since switched to all EMC Celerra. We have to keep a small NetApp around just for restores of this data, which do occur occasionally. AFAIK, I don't think Netbackup actually writes anything Netbackup specific to the headers of NDMP tapes, as the tape drives are controlled by the filer during the time of backup / restore. I believe all that Netbackup does is just grab metadata over the network and creates an image based on that.
HTH, nick > I understand the way things are written to tape much better now and can > see that we probably would not be able to restore a tape to a non-ndmp > system such as a hpux server. > > The solution we are looking at would only be needed until the data > retention period for existing backups expire. We would keep NetBackup > around during that time. Once everything expires, the server and tape > library would find other things to do. > > What I'm taking from this is that even if I want to restore back to a > filer, unless the data is being read off of tape by a filer that > understands its version of dump, restores won't work. That means we > will need to keep the tape library connected to a filer for restores > until everything expires. > > Am I getting closer :-) > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
