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
- Troubleshooting
- Setting the log level
- Logging directories for Linux platforms
- Logging folders for Windows platforms
- Logging folders for multi-stream restore
- Restore from a snapshot fails with status 133
- Backup from snapshot fails with error 50
- Backup from snapshot parent job fails with error 4213: Snapshot import failed
- Backup host pool creation fails with the error "Failed to fetch host list"
- Snapshot job fails and the snapshot command does not recognize the volume name
- Accelerator enabled incremental backup of NetApp NAS volume
- Snapshot method: Auto
- Backup from snapshot jobs for NAS-Data-Protection policy fail with error 4213
- A full VCT-enabled indexing job runs, when followed by a non-VCT indexing job with a backup host prior to version to 10.3
- Backup from snapshot jobs for NAS data protection policy fail with error 927
- Error code: 930: No supported media server is available in the All_Media_Server_Pool to use to backup the NAS shares.
- Multi-stream restore from NAS array volume fails with the status: 174 Media manager - system error occurred.
- NAS job fails with the error: Crawler process timed out after 600 seconds waiting for streams to attach with shared memory.
- Section III. Using NDMP
- 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
- 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) with NetBackup for NDMP
- NAS appliance information for NDMP
- About NAS appliances support
- Non-vendor-specific information
- Vendor-specific information
- Dell EMC Isilon
- Dell EMC VNX
- Dell EMC Unity
- EMC Celerra
- Hitachi HDI/VFP
- Hitachi NAS (HNAS)
- HP X9000 NAS
- Huawei OceanStor V3
- IBM System Storage Nxxxx
- NEC Storage NV series
- NetApp
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Using a node name as the NDMP client name in all versions of NetBackup
- Using a data Vserver LIF as the NDMP client name in non-CAB-aware versions of NetBackup
- Using a cluster_mgmt vserver LIF as the NDMP client name in non-CAB-aware versions of NetBackup
- Using a cluster_mgmt Vserver LIF as the NDMP client name in CAB-aware versions of NetBackup
- Using NetBackup with NetApp's Data ONTAP 8.2 cluster mode
- Nexenta
- Nexsan
- Oracle Axiom Series
- Oracle Solaris Server
- Stratus V Series
- 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)
- Introduction to NetBackup for NDMP
Non-vendor-specific information
The NetBackup operating systems compatibility lists provide the most up-to-date list of supported operating systems, with notes on supported hardware platforms. NDMP compatibility is listed as a column in the NetBackup Server section for each operating system in the compatibility list:
http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility
Note:
NetBackup for NDMP is installed on a master or media server, not on a client.
The information in this document may apply to many different NetBackup releases. To find if your device and its features are supported at a particular NetBackup level, refer to the NetBackup Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for the version of NetBackup that you are running:
http://www.netbackup.com/compatibility
Use the tpconfig and tpautoconf commands as described under "Example Configuration Sequence" in each of the following sections of this document for particular NDMP hosts.
For NAS hosts that support Direct Access Recovery (DAR), NetBackup enables DAR by default.
When restoring files from NetBackup backups of NAS filers that use older versions of the NDMP protocol (V2 and V3), the destination path for the restore must end with the original folder and file name, even if you are restoring the files to a different location. (This restriction does not apply to NAS filers that use the NDMP protocol V4.)
If the original backup path was /vol/vol1/mydir/myfile, the destination path for restore to a different location must end with /mydir/myfile. Otherwise, NetBackup appends /mydir/myfile to the end of the destination path.
For example, to restore /vol/vol1/mydir/myfile to a folder under/vol/vol2/, specify /vol/vol2/mydir/myfile as the destination.
For NAS filers that use NDMP V4, you can specify a different subfolder or file name. For example, /vol/vol1/mydir/myfilecan be restored to /vol/vol2/mydir2/myfile_restored.
For any restrictions unique to a particular NAS filer, see the appropriate section in this document for your filer.
The NDMP protocol specification uses environment variables to control backup and restore operations. These variables are defined by each vendor individually, with some amount of adherence to a common, defined set. NetBackup controls the setting of some of those variables without the ability for a user to change them (such as LEVEL and USER), and some of them are modified by NetBackup settings and policy configuration (such as DIRECT and FILESYSTEM). It is possible to change some of the variables in the include list of a NetBackup policy, such as variables for which NetBackup just passes a default value (HIST, TYPE) and for those variables that are vendor-specific.
With such a large set of possibly vendor-specific implementations of environment variables, it is impossible to provide an exhaustive list in this document. An attempt has been made to document those variables that were found during testing to have the most impact. Refer to vendor documentation for more information.