NDMP was much faster for total throughput for us when compared to a full backup.
Remember what is backed up via NDMP must be restored via NDMP. So for you DR plan you need to ensure you have a NetApp device to restore to at your DR site. Make sure you run some restore tests and see how you restore to an alternate NAS filer. Remember you can pick alternate location and then browse to a windows share somewhere. The incremental restore from a NDMP backup works as advertised. The bests advice I can give is the most practical, make sure you run a bunch of backup and restore tests. Curtis Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Everyone, I'm about to implement NDMP backups of our NetApp filer and am looking for tips, gotchas etc... Currently, we backup the filer using CIFS and a mount point on a Windows 2000 server. The performance of this method is painfully slow. It takes about 22 hours to complete an incremental backup of the 3.5 million file system over a 100MB full duplex network. We're hoping the backup and restore performance will improve significantly with NDMP. I've read through the Admin Guide a few times and our setup will indeed support NDMP operations. I plan to use the TSM server to run the library, and share it between the NAS and regular TSM operations. The library is a STK L700 with LTO Gen2 Fibre Channel drives (8 of them). Overall the setup directions seem fairly straight forward. Here are my questions. 1. Am I being overly optimistic? It doesn't seem like it will be that big a deal. 2. Can I expect a significant backup and restore performance improvement using NDMP? Thanks in advance, Curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! Try it today!
