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)
Limitations of Replication Director with NDMP
Consider the following limitation before configuring NDMP to be used with Replication Director:
The Solaris_x86 operating system is not supported.
The Multiple copies NetBackup policy option is not supported for image copies in the NDMP data format.
The Restore the file using a temporary filename restore option is not supported on Windows clients.
Restores to a local file system are not supported with an MS-Windows or a Standard policy that has the NDMP Data Mover enabled.
Do not include both the qtree and the volume on which the qtree resides in the same Backup Selection list.
Only one NDMP backup of a snapshot per backupid is allowed.
The Index From Snapshot operation is supported only in a Replication Director configuration, however, a Standard or MS-Windows policy with NDMP Data Mover enabled is also not supported.
Note:
The Index From Snapshot operation is not supported for media servers running on AIX and HP-UX platforms. This operation is supported only on Linux, Windows, and Solaris media servers. See the NetBackup Master Compatibility List for information about supported operating systems.
Note:
The Index From Snapshot operation is not supported for NetApp ONTAP 7-mode.
When you make changes to the NDMP policy after the last full or incremental schedule (for example, if you add or delete a backup selection), the content for the next incremental retrieves the entire content of the snapshot rather than retrieving only the content that has changed. The next incremental schedule however, after only retrieves content that has changed as expected.