Hi all,
I'm curious as to your personal experiences, and general opinion of NDMP with regard to it's performance and reliability etc.
I have an NDMP Filer (Netapp) here, connected directly to my MA via fibre and experience all sorts of problems. Backup is about 12TB.
Whilst it essentially works, we often get communication issues between the filer, the MA and it's drives. It's never clear where the problem lies, we often end up rebooting everything, to clear the fault.
We also find that NDMP jobs dont recover well from these failures, or network failures in general. Jobs fail, tapes get deprecated en masse, stale sessions build up on the Filer. I find myself checking for deprecated tapes and stale NDMP sessions every couple of days pretty much.
However in comparison, backing up our servers is almost faultless. We backup about 100 Windows and *nix boxes and these just work.
In general my experience of managing NDMP backups and its associated issues is not great.
Am i alone, or are other admins battling with NMDP backups out there?
I'm curious as to your personal experiences, and general opinion of NDMP with regard to it's performance and reliability etc.
I have an NDMP Filer (Netapp) here, connected directly to my MA via fibre and experience all sorts of problems. Backup is about 12TB.
Whilst it essentially works, we often get communication issues between the filer, the MA and it's drives. It's never clear where the problem lies, we often end up rebooting everything, to clear the fault.
We also find that NDMP jobs dont recover well from these failures, or network failures in general. Jobs fail, tapes get deprecated en masse, stale sessions build up on the Filer. I find myself checking for deprecated tapes and stale NDMP sessions every couple of days pretty much.
However in comparison, backing up our servers is almost faultless. We backup about 100 Windows and *nix boxes and these just work.
In general my experience of managing NDMP backups and its associated issues is not great.
Am i alone, or are other admins battling with NMDP backups out there?