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]
