Veritas NetBackup™ for NDMP Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
- About NetBackup for NDMP
- About Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP)
- Types of NDMP backup
- About NDMP policies in NetBackup
- About NetBackup storage units
- About assigning tape drives to different hosts
- About the NDMP backup process
- About the NDMP restore process
- About Direct Access Recovery (DAR)
- Snapshot Client assistance
- About NDMP multiplexing
- About NDMP support for Replication Director
- Limitations of Replication Director with NDMP
- About NDMP support for NetApp clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT)
- Installation Notes for NetBackup for NDMP
- Configuring NDMP backup to NDMP-attached devices
- About configuring NDMP-attached devices
- Authorizing NetBackup access to a NAS (NDMP) host
- About access for three-way backups and remote NDMP
- About Media and Device Management configuration
- Using the Device Configuration Wizard to configure an NDMP filer
- About adding volumes
- About verifying NDMP password and robot connection
- Adding NDMP storage units
- About creating an NDMP policy
- Attributes tab options for an NDMP policy
- Schedules tab options for an NDMP policy with Accelerator for NDMP enabled
- Clients tab options for an NDMP policy
- Backup selection options for an NDMP policy
- About environment variables in the backup selections list
- About appropriate host selection for NetApp cDOT backup policies
- About backup types in a schedule for an NDMP policy
- About enabling or disabling DAR
- Configuring NetBackup for NDMP in a clustered environment
- Configuring NDMP backup to NetBackup media servers (remote NDMP)
- Configuring NDMP DirectCopy
- Accelerator for NDMP
- Remote NDMP and disk devices
- Using the Shared Storage Option (SSO)
- Backup and restore procedures
- Troubleshooting
- Using NetBackup for NDMP scripts
- About the NetBackup for NDMP scripts
- ndmp_start_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_start_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_end_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_end_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_start_path_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_start_path_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_end_path_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_end_path_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
- ndmp_moving_path_notify script (UNIX)
- ndmp_moving_path_notify.cmd script (Microsoft Windows)
Configuring NDMP backup to Media Manager storage units
This section describes how to configure NDMP backups to Media Manager storage units.
To configure NDMP backups to Media Manager storage units
- Authorize the NetBackup server to access the NDMP hosts you want to back up.
Perform the following steps on the master server (not media server) if you plan to create snapshots using the Snapshot Client NAS_Snapshot method:
Under Media and Device Management > Credentials, click NDMP Hosts. From the Actions menu, choose New > New NDMP Host to display the Add NDMP Host dialog.
Fill in the values.
Repeat these steps for each NDMP host that the NetBackup server backs up.
- Use the NetBackup Device Configuration Wizard to configure the drive(s) and robot(s).
Note the following:
Do not use the "Configuring NDMP backup to NDMP-attached devices" topic in this guide. Configure the robots and drives as ordinary NetBackup devices, not as NDMP-attached devices.
Drives can be shared using the NetBackup Shared Storage Option (SSO). The drives can be shared as both NDMP drives and non-NDMP drives.
- Create a Media Manager storage unit for the drive(s). The storage unit type must be Media Manager, not NDMP.
For NDMP multiplexing, do the following steps:
Select the Enable Multiplexing check box on the New Storage Unit menu.
Set the Maximum streams per drive entry to a value greater than one.
For details on storage units, refer to the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.
- Create an NDMP-type policy. On the New/Change Policy display, be sure to specify the storage unit that was created in the previous step.
Note the following for NDMP multiplexing:
Set the Media multiplexing attribute on the Add New Schedule menu to a value greater than one.