I have been tasked with designing a solution to move data from one stand-alone network to another using Netbackup. Essentially, about once every two or three months we will get a server with several terabytes of data on it. We want to keep this server on an unclassified network to act as an archive for any program that wants to use it. How ever, the other programs operate on a classified stand-alone network, so we can't move the server or the hard drives to those networks or they become classified as well. Our solution is to have two tape libraries, one on each network, and back up the data from the unclassified server and move the tapes (set to read-only) to the classified tape library, where we would import the catalog and restore the data to an Isilon NDMP-enabled NAS. I have some questions, if anyone here has the expertise to answer.
1) Is it possible to restore a regular backup to an NDMP client? (assuming we have NDMP Netbackup installed)
2) Is it possible to restore a Linux backup to a Windows client? Or would that method lose data?
3) Would it be best to buy an identical server and do Bare Metal Restores to it?
4) Any easier way to do this you can think of?
