So if i want to use backupexec's NDMP option and smvi to take backups from the netapp (combination of cifs shares, and VM's), does the tape drive have to be fiber (or iSCSI) attached to the netapp ...

3 way works just fine, as long as everyone is implementing the protocol correctly. Sadly, I know a great deal about how things go over the wire, but not much from the administrative side. One thing to ...

NAS backup seems like talk from yesteryear in these days when the cloud is on the rise and disk declining. But there’s still a lot of NAS storage out there – from departmental boxes to scale-out NAS – ...

It has been a decade since the first version of the Network Data Management Protocol was launched as an effort to solve the problems posed by the backup and recovery of network file servers. Initial ...