You've just about gottit all. There is some concern about this whole thing; currently, you are limited to image backups using NDMP; if you want file-level granularity, you must use NFS mount to access the file system from a supported b/a-client... not as pretty as you'd like, but that's the way it is. Then, too, you are limited to NAS filer; Auspex and other filers are not supported.
The storage pool limitation comes from the format used to store the data; they "invented" a new concept/format for NDMP storage pools, so must be kept segregated from "standard" storage pools; I THINK you can still use "backup stg" command -- but you cannot intermix the different types of primary storage pools in a common copy-pool. IBM/Tivoli is wondering how much market there is to justify expanding this support -- (a) file-level granularity and/or (b) other filers. IMHO, I'd want to see file-level granularity. Comments can be posted here... Don France Technical Architect - Tivoli Certified Consultant Professional Association of Contract Employees (P.A.C.E.) San Jose, CA (408) 257-3037 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Wichmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 9:47 AM Subject: TDP for NDMP > Has anyone used and had any experiences with NDMP backups? I'm curious > what kind of experiences you've had using the product. Pros/cons, etc.. > > I've been reading the admin guide section on it and it seems like a > whole other beast to what I'm used to with TSM. E.g. your NDMP file > server has to be attacked to the tape drive. Seems like this would be > undesirable if you had a lot of file servers. Would you have to buy a > comparative # of tape drives? Or how many tape drives could you share > between your file servers and TSM server? > > Theres a comment about "you cannot backup a storage pool used for NDMP > backups". Does this mean you can't create a copypool and 2nd copy of the > backed up data? > > Do the NDMP backups only backup the entire file server and restore the > entire file server? I guess it's not clear to me on what level of > granularity there is in backing up NDMP file servers. > > Seems like NDMP backups require their own TSM domain/policyset/etc > structure as well. > > Also I understand it only works with Network Appliance NAS devices? > > Appreciate anyone with practical knowledge to comment on their > experience and perhaps clarify some of my questions above.. thank-you
