[Veritas-bu] Read an NDMP image with tar?

[Jerry]

If the resulting file is just in dump format, with
NDMP only being used for transmission, I suppose you
could use dd to get the file off the tape and use dump
to read it. maybe.

Or maybe you could install an ndmp client on the
destination machine: http://www.ndmp.org/download/

Either way, let me know if you end up testing either
idea, as I would be interested myself.  I sometimes
have large backup sets I want to restore to a
non-netapp machine.

--- "MacKinnon, G. R. (Gregory)" <gmackinn at ford.com>
wrote:
> J R wrote:
> 
> >You will not be able to use tar or gnu tar to read
> >NDMP backups. They are not written using the same
> >method (i.e. Tar format)as regular NetBackup
> backups.
> >They are written using the NDMP dump command which
> is
> >an entirely different format. NetBackup when
> >performing backups or restores relies entirely on
> the
> >NDMP server to write or read the data. You must
> have
> >an NDMP server at the new location in order to
> recover
> >these tapes. It doesn't necessarily have to be a
> >Celerra but does have to support the same NDMP
> version
> >as the Celerra does (which most of them do). 
> >
> >Jeff Redington
> >
> >"A wise man once said 'Wherever you go, there you
> are'"
> >      -Mike Brady
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> Man, I'm missing my Solaris/samba server with SAN
> attached
> disks more and more.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Gregg
> 
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