You will need to license one or both of your NetApp controllers depending on the model, which corresponds to "tier" of NetBackup license. I believe our 2040s require a single tier-2 license, but our 3160s(?) require two tier-3 licenses. If I may, I suggest that you look into snapmirror to tape and snapshots. Snapmirror to tape requires the NDMP license for NetBackup, but does not require any additional licenses on the NetApp.
Snapmirror to tape will allow you to backup your 8TB very quickly, but it won't allow you to do individual file restores. To counter that, we keep several weeks of snapshots available on the array. If a user needs a file they can go into a hidden .snapshot folder and see the folder structure as it existed at the time of snapshot. If they need any data older than that, we have to restore the entire volume from tape. It's not perfect, but we haven't had to restore a single volume here (other than for testing) and our users get to go hunt for their own files to "restore" (aka copy from snapshot) which it about as good as it gets for me here. Good luck! -Jonathan From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Simon Weaver Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:45 AM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Advice / Experience - NetApp and NBU All Going to 7.5 shortly, but there is talk about bringing in a "NetApp" device, where it will replace our standard file Server. Not fully familiar with NetApp and how it talks to NetBackup, I wanted to find out from any real world experience how it is used and backed up. For example, if it holds 8TB of Data, do I need a License for NBU for NDMP and use a wizard to configure? How do you backup your NetApp devices? Any pros or cons to the setup? Its advice I am after, so to get real world experience is better to fully understand how it works. I got the NBU NDMP Papers here, and the NetApp papers, but there is just too much to go through, and I basically want to get an idea on how good Netapp is, how quick it can backup and more important, recovery? I saw an online Demo of some sort of NetApp Snapshot feature, where some text files were created, a VSS Snapshot copy was made, the files deleted and then recovered. But 1kb files is EASY to recover, but wondering how you recover 8TB !! :-) Thank you for any advice Yours Simon
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