Re:

We engineer our back up archives around the fact that this is not possible.
There may have been isolated successful situations, but the vast majority
of the time to do a restore like this you require an original hardware
equivalent environment.

It’s a major pain point for us too, and we’re actively seeking solutions to
it.


On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 7:09 AM Heino Walther <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah, good luck with that 😉
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> Been there tried that.. no luck..  especially LUNs are a no-go because LUN
> information are stored in the folder where it is stored, and only NetApp
> knows how to interpret that…
>
> But please let me know if anyone has been able to successfully restore
> files from NetApp NDMP to anything else than another NetApp…
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>
> /Heino
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> *Fra: *Tim McCarthy <[email protected]>
> *Dato: *lørdag, 10. april 2021 kl. 13.06
> *Til: *Basil <[email protected]>, Heino Walther <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *[email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Emne: *Re:
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> So an ndmp dump from Netapp actually follows standard Unix dump except it
> had an extra pass at the end of the tape (pass V for ACLs)
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> In theory, If you could find the markers on the tape for the start of the
> dump, you might be able to restore to a Linux box without using ndmp
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> *From:* Toasters <[email protected]> on behalf of Basil <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 10, 2021 6:55:49 AM
> *To:* Heino Walther <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re:
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> Snapdiff is new actually- not NDMP. I am experiencing a bug in gmail on
> ios so I can’t paste the link but the first Google result for netapp ndmp
> snapdiff is the blog post explaining it :)
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> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 6:36 AM Heino Walther <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> As fas as I can remember snapdiff is using NDMP which should be a standard
> and open protocol, but NetApp, EMC and others have made their specific
> changes to their version of NDMP which basically make them not
> interchangeable.
>
> So I guess you will need a NetApp controller in order to restore your data.
>
> There is a slim chance that files can be restored to other NDMP devices
> (CIFS or NFS), but LUNs are required to be restored to a NDMP.
>
>
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> You can either just keep a NetApp controller ready for this (with no
> service on it) or maybe just setup an ONTAP Select virtual instance in
> vSphere which you will be able to restore to, and it’s not as expensive and
> a NetApp Hardware box.
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>
> /Heino
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> *Dato: *lørdag, 10. april 2021 kl. 02.12
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