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 Vendor Change Tracking
Several NAS storage array vendors have a difference engine that identifies the list of changed files and directories between two snapshot copies of the same volume. When Vendor Change Tracking (VCT) is enabled for a D-NAS policy, NetBackup does not perform any file system tracking for backup of NAS volumes. Instead it relies only on the change-list from the difference engine of the storage array to perform backup of files and directories. This process optimizes the backup process.
To use this feature, ensure that the storage array provides this capability. D-NAS policy supports VCT-enabled backups and index operations for Dell EMC PowerScale (Isilon), NetApp, Nutanix Files, and Qumulo NAS arrays.
VCT is not applicable in the following conditions:
Full schedule is only supported when accelerator is enabled along with VCT.
The base snapshot is not available.
Expire after copy retention option is selected for the snapshot in SLP.