NetApp filers are versatile and high-performance storage appliances. They’re so reliable that it’s easy to forget things can go wrong – like a fire, theft, or major storm. The potential for an unknown disaster is what makes offsite backup a necessity, even for NetApp filers with internal redundancy.i>
The traditional methods of backing up a NetApp – an NDMP dump of the WAFL file system – works, but it has a number of shortcomings:
You Need a Second NetApp to Recover – since the NDMP dump is a binary image of the WAFL file system, the only device that can parse and utilize this image is another NetApp