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bitmover
Level 2
16 years ago

Restoring Netbackup NDMP tapes on Windows Server - Gurus needed

Hello Netbackup Gurus, I've been tasked with restoring several Netbackup tapes of Netapp data that were backed up using NDMP. The tape drives we are using are LTO-4. The original serve...
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  • Nicolai's avatar
    Nicolai
    16 years ago

    I assume that the tape drive was attached to the netapp box (not using 3 way NDMP backup)

    I asked support some month ago if I could restore data from a NDMP (emc clerra) backup  to a Windows client, and the answer was "no, must be same architecture". I think you will need a box caple of "talking" NDMP.


    Regards

    Nicolai
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scorpy_582
Level 6
16 years ago
NDMP is a little more specific.. You cannot restore NDMP backup from netApp filer to an EMC filer.

Every vendor have their own proprietory way of writing NDMP data to tapes.

However, if these tapes were written Using NBU, then you should be able to import the media in netbackup but there wouldn't be much of use unless you have the filer with original make available.