I never really saw that as a real world limitation.  I mean, I don't
know many IT departments who have the equivalent disk capacity of
production just for staging.

I would have to have 50TB of stage disk for my NDMP data if fulls, 20TB
if incrementals.  Not exactly plausible for most people.

~JK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-
> admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of John Stoffel
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:08 PM
> To: Jim Horalek
> Cc: Veritas-Bu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Ndmp Vaulting
> 
> 
> Jim> Does Vaulting support NDMP media?
> 
> 4.5FP5 does, we're using it here in the initial stages.
> 
> Jim> Any details would be helpful
> 
> The big limitation is that NDMP doesn't allow you to send savesets to
> disk, just to an NDMP only tape device.  This is a really frustrating
> limitation, since we're able to stage all of our other backups to disk
> and then we'll vault them to tape during the day.
> 
> John
>    John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent
Technologies
>        stoffel AT lucent DOT com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-952-7548
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