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Mastana420
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9 years ago

NetApp NFS and CIFS backup

Hi   A quick overview on how we take NetApp backups, and why we ended up doing this way. Initially our plan was to take backup of NetApp directly to Tape by utilizing the NetApp plugin and R...
  • RiaanBadenhorst's avatar
    9 years ago

    Hi,

     

    At the moment you can only take ndmp remote (across the lan) , local (to tape as you configured), or via CIFS.

     

    Replication director would involve creating a snapshot, maybe replicating that to another site, and then putting it onto storage media (disk or tape) using either (remote or local). so not much change in that regard.

     

    NDMP accelerator will be really handy :)