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
Accelerator enabled incremental backup of NetApp NAS volume
Accelerator enabled NAS-Data-Protection policy backups complete volume instead of only the incremental data. This also affects the run optimization.
This issue occurs under the following conditions:
The policy type is NAS-Data-Protection.
In the policy's Snapshot options, the value of Access Protocol is Default or NFS3.
Backup selection has NetApp NAS volumes.
The Accelerator technology optimizes a backup by sending only changed blocks over a network for backup. A two-step process is used to identify the changed files and changed blocks in these files. File attributes and index node (inode) are the key parameters to identify a change. If the files are accessed over NFS version 3, a file on a NetApp NAS volume behaves differently because of the inode numbers. The same file has different inode numbers across snapshots of the volume if accessed over NFS3. All schedules of backup are based on the snapshot that is created for the run of the policy. New snapshots with different inode numbers than the previous ones help the accelerator to identify these files as new files. Because of this issue, all files are backed up instead of incremental data only.
To resolve this issue, avoid using NFS version 3 to access the snapshot for accelerator-enabled backups. You can change the Access Protocol to NFS4 for the affected policy. For more details, refer to the NetApp documentation.