Veritas NetBackup™ for NDMP Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
- About NetBackup for NDMP
- Types of NDMP backup
- About assigning tape drives to different hosts
- Installation Notes for NetBackup for NDMP
- Configuring NDMP backup to NDMP-attached devices
- About Media and Device Management configuration
- About creating an NDMP policy
- Backup selection options for an NDMP policy
- About enabling or disabling DAR
- 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 NetBackup storage units
NetBackup uses either one of the following storage units:
NDMP-type storage units (for local or three-way backup)
NetBackup requires NDMP-type storage units when you back up NDMP host data to the devices that are as follows:
Attached to an NDMP host
Available to the NDMP host on a SAN
An NDMP storage unit can contain standalone or robotic drives. Robotic controls can be in a TLD (tape library DLT), TL8 (tape library 8MM), TLH (tape library Half Inch), or ACS robot type.
Media Manager storage units (for backup to devices that are attached to a NetBackup media server)
You can use the drives that were configured in Media Manager-type storage units when you back up NDMP host data to devices that are as follows:
Attached to a NetBackup for NDMP server
Available to the server on a SAN
For NDMP backup, drives in Media Manager-type storage units do not have to be dedicated to NDMP data. They can store backups of regular (non-NDMP) NetBackup clients as well as of NDMP clients.