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Restore Celera NDMP Backup into Unity or Isilon
Due to a Celerra NSX4 EOS june/2017 I will have to replace the box. I foresee these options, can someone help me to understand how viable they are? I have around 2PB of data on EMC Networker.
Replace with EMC Unity - Is Unity NDMP 100% compatible with Celerra NDMP so I can restore data from backups?
Use Volumes from Isilon - Is isilon NDMP compatible with Celerra NDMP backups?
Use Celerra Simulator - Can I use Celerra simulator to keep my restores? Is that supported?
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!
cadencep45
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Posted April 18th, 2017 22:00
Do you know is Unity a valid NDMP restore target of VNX NDMP backup ?
Yes, we do support backward compatibility. There has been limited testing of Celerra > Unity though. Engineering has tested VNX > Unity.
For VNX/Celerra > Unity restore…
You can restore, but there are caveats. New attributes in the UFS64 inode (new Unity file system) will not be available, but UFS32 (VNX/Celerra file system) compatible attributes will be available. Unity also only supports 3-way, no direct connect 2-way.
- Internationalization – Unity will not restore files with internationalized names.
- If the original backups are of dedupe filesystems, this is likely not to work, especially with Unity.
- If the backup type is VBB, this will not work with Unity.
- Please try and use the same backup software for the restores that was used for backup. (Unity compatible backup software is listed in the ESSM)
dynamox
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Posted April 18th, 2017 19:00
Isilon NDMP is not compatible with Celerra/VNX