NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
- Section I. About NAS backups
- Section II. Using NAS-Data-Protection (D-NAS)
- D-NAS overview
- D-NAS Planning and Tuning
- Pre-requisites for D-NAS configuration
- Volume multi-host backup
- Configure D-NAS policy for NAS volumes
- Using accelerator
- Using Vendor Change Tracking
- Replication using D-NAS policy
- Restoring from D-NAS backups
- Troubleshooting
- Section III. Using NDMP
- 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
- 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) with NetBackup for NDMP
- NAS appliance information for NDMP
- Vendor-specific information
- EMC Celerra
- NetApp
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Backup and restore procedures
- Troubleshooting
- Using NetBackup for NDMP scripts
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
About appropriate host selection for NetApp cDOT backup policies
When configuring a backup policy to protect NetApp cDOT systems, use either the cluster-managment LIF or the data LIF. Consider the following when using the cluster-management LIF as the backup policy client.
Advantages:
Everything is cataloged under the cluster-management LIF.
You only have to validate the cluster-management LIF.
It is easier to back up everything using a few policies.
Disadvantages:
If the cluster is in use by multiple departments in the same organization, it may be difficult to isolate the data between divisions. This may also be a security concern for some organizations if they want to share data between divisions.
There is a limited granularity in the choice of volume pools and destination storage.
Finding the appropriate data may be more difficult at the time of restore.
Consider the following when using the data LIF as the backup policy client.
Advantages:
Everything is cataloged under the data LIF.
If the cluster is in use by multiple departments in the same organization, it is very easy to isolate data between divisions.
Data from different divisions can go to different volume pools and destination storage.
Finding the appropriate data is easier at the time of restore.
Disadvantages:
You need to add credentials for each data LIF.
You need multiple policies to backup up the entire cluster.