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)
About Media and Device Management configuration
On the NetBackup for NDMP server, use in the NetBackup Administration Console to add drives and robots. As an alternative, you can use the NetBackup Device Configuration Wizard.
Note:
NetBackup recommends that any tape drive that is attached to a NetApp cDOT system must be connected to all of the cluster nodes. If you do not follow this recommendation, NetBackup may not be able to find the optimal path for data transfer.
The following procedures and examples treat NDMP configuration issues only.
See the NetBackup Administrator's Guide for UNIX, Windows, and Linux, Volume I, for general information on configuring NetBackup media.
More information on configuring storage devices for specific NDMP hosts is available.
For information about supported NDMP operating systems and NAS vendors, access NetBackup for NDMP: NAS Appliance Information from the Veritas Support website. The topic also contains configuration and troubleshooting help for particular NAS systems:
For a list of the features and software releases for each NAS vendor, for SSO support, and for the NetBackup versions that support these vendors, see the NetBackup Master Compatibility List, as follows:
These procedures do not apply to setting up the devices that are attached to the NetBackup media server. To back up NDMP data to media servers, you must configure storage units in the same way as ordinary NetBackup (non-NDMP) devices. More information is available: