On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Randy Samora <randy.sam...@stewart.com>wrote:
> I have a Windows environment and NBU 6.5.2a. I have a SAN Media Server
> that houses and backs up my SQL dumps. Those backups run the longest
> but by far the fastest. My SAN guys purchased a NetApp device and have
> decided to have the SQL dumps write directly to the NetApp device and
> implement NDMP for backups. I have absolutely no experience with NDMP
> so can someone out in NBU land tell me if my backups are going to be
> slower :( faster :) somewhere in between :|?
>
NDMP is *fast* on a NetApp filer. We're doing NDMP directly to tape and
have also done it to DSSU.
Don't forget that you need to purchase the NDMP license. And the tiering is
funny (even number for a single head and odd number for a clustered filer).
With snapshots enabled on the filer, the chances are pretty good you won't
ever have to do a restore for your SQL admins.
.../Ed
Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE
ewi...@ewilts.org
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