Hi,
we are also looking into refreshing our MaxDB backup infrastructure under SuSE Linux., MaxDB 7.7 and 7.8 and Netapp NFS managed by Fujitsu's "FlexFrame for SAP" and NDMP currently with Legato Networker.
Netapp SnapCreator involves some scripts and in version 3.5/3.6 contains a Netapp supported MaxDB Plug-In. Will try it out next week if I can.
Not sure whether SAP would certify single components of backup solutions,
they might just stop at certifying Netapp NFS and any possible BACKINT interface.
In addition to SnapCreator which might help us synchronizing Netapp snapshots of different volumes belonging to one MaxDB we are thinking about using the MaxDB 7.8 feature
"dbmcli backup_template_create <name> TO EXTERNAL SNAPSHOT"
to make the NDMP Netapp volume backups visible in MaxDB tools.
Would that make sense ?
Can hardly find any documentation about this feature though, could not even find the documentation of this dbmcli parameter in the MaxDB 7.8 online help.
Kind Regards,Norbert