You don't have to use tape.  
You can do NDMP backups via TCP/IP to your regular TSM storage pool hierarchy.
But AFAIK you still have to do it at the volume/share level that the NAS device 
understands, I don't think you can do it at the root.

Using "virtualmountpoint" is for backing up incrementally at the *file* level 
via NFS or CIFS mounts, not NDMP, so I'm not sure which way you are headed.

Question is, what are you doing this for?  
NDMP is a stupid, simplistic protocol.  You won't like what you have to do to 
achieve an individual file restore.  If you are trying to get DR capability to 
rebuild your NDMP shares in case of an emergency, it makes sense.  If you are 
just trying to provide backup coverage to restore people's files like you would 
from a file server, it may not. 

If you want to do NDMP via TCP/IP instead of direct to tape, reply with your 
TSM server platform and server level, and I'll send you back the page reference 
in the manual you need...

W 




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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Dury, John C.
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:11 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device

We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like 
to be able to root file level (image backups don't help much) backups (and 
restores if necessary) of the entire  NDMP device to the local TSM server. Can 
someone point me in the right direction or tell me how they did it? NAS/NDMP is 
pretty new to me and from what I have read so far, the documentation talks 
about backing up directly to tape, which we don't have any more.  All of our 
storage is online.

What I was originally planning on doing, was creating all of the NFS shares on 
one linux server, and backing them up as /virtualmountpoints. I'd like to setup 
just one which points to the root of all the NFS systems on the NAS device but 
I see no way to do that either.
Any help is appreciated.