We currently use traditional windows fileservers, but are being presented with
an opportunity to start using a NAS device.
I've been reading up on NDMP, doesn't sound to me like NAS is the backup
admin's friend.
Can anyone who has gone down this road share any of the biggest
pros/cons/gotchas?
We've been backing up one NAS system with NDMP filer-to-server for about 2
years now, it's currently at around 16TB.
In our particular setup, we rely on backups fitting on disk before going to
tape. As such, we've had to size the disk pool for that client to match the
NAS size. We hit a
We are in the same situation - possibly changing from Win Servers (using
some kind of
microsoft replication) with BA client backups to NAS systems . . .about
+20tb of data also.
So I'm also interested in any comments.
I've been reading the vendor manuals, TSM doc's and Redbooks, this mailing
, 2010 12:29 PM
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We are in the same situation - possibly changing from Win Servers (using
some kind of
microsoft replication) with BA client backups to NAS systems . . .about
+20tb of data also.
So I'm also interested in any
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We are in the same situation - possibly changing from Win Servers (using
some kind of
microsoft replication
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:51:14AM -0500, Prather, Wanda wrote:
-I think NDMP is just a bad idea all over, if you don't have SNAPDIFF.
You have a backup product with the architecture and capability to a)
back up only changed files, b) keep different files with different
retention rules, and
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The NAS vendor is recommending that the NAS box both dedup and compress
the
files on it. This sounds good for space, but I'm thinking that this will
cause NDMP backup to take even longer. I'm
