On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 05:37:01PM -0600, Nick Majeran wrote: > 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.
If that were true, the tapes wouldn't have a Netbackup media header (RVSN). You can easily read them, even on tapes labeled by an NDMP tape drive. I think this is done via the scsi pass-through service within NDMP. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
