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June 16th, 2009 08:00

NDMP restore w/out NDMP environment

Customer wants single file restored after an NDMP environment was decommed.
Tape library still connected but NDMP filers are gone. Is it possible to recover the data from non NDMP configured tape drive. Otherwise how can I setup the environment to read the media and recover the files? I do not have experience with this protocol nor the setup of devices in NetWorker.
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    Posted June 16th, 2009 10:00

    If this has been backed up directly to drives attached to filer then you need filer again to read it.
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    Posted June 16th, 2009 12:00

    Customer and I were wondering about this.
    I was hoping that the data could be read and restored to an alternate location if I declared a "stand alone" NDMP device to read the data. Is that possible or is NDMP limited to restoring only to location where it came from?
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    Posted June 16th, 2009 13:00

    Since the source NDMP filers are gone, would an NFS mount from my NW server to an NDMP filer be successful? Would I need to run an NDMP client from the NW server with an NFS mount setup in this manner?
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    Posted June 17th, 2009 02:00

    The problem you face is that data stream was written wtih filer so it is just filer that can read it. I'm not sure if running NDMP tape server would help here - I believe not.

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