Mukarram,

It is actually pretty easy. The procedure is described in the 'NetBackup for
NDMP Systems Administration Guide' which refers back to the manual provided by
NetApp to set up using the NDMP protocol. In a nutshell, on the NetApp you have
to attach it to one of the drives in your jukebox while the Server is connected
to the robot. I don't remember how to setup the NDMP on the NetApp - but I do
recall that it was fairly easy and intuitive. You need to connect the drive and
do a configuration reboot. Once that is done you will see something like nrst0a
as the tape drive. In NetBackup you must configure a new class which uses the
NDMP client. In the devices you tell the robot which drive is connected to the
NetApp. For Example, If you have a tape system with two drives. From the server
you connect to the robot and then continue to drive 1 followed by termination.
Drive 2 is connected to the NetApp and is also terminated. The device you set
up for drive 2 on the server is /ndmp/nrst0a

Steve Moccio



Mukarram Syed wrote:

> Hi
> How do you implement the NDMP protocol?  Can you point me in the right
> direction?  Documentation etc?  We have a Netapp and we want to use NDMP.
>
> Thanks
> -Mukarram Syed
>
> ---- Stephen Moccio <svm AT lucent DOT com> wrote:
> > With the NDMP protocol you must have the tape drive attached to the
> > netapp. It
> > has been my experience that backing up the netapp under NFS was painfully
> > long.
> > I would connect each netapp to its own drive and use the NDMP protocol.
> >
> > Steve Moccio
> >  Lucent Technologies
> >
> > Jagtar Ghuman wrote:
> >
> > > I have a customer with a two NetApp 760 filers with about 400GB data
> > on
> > > each. They are planning to use a dedicated Gigabit LAN for backups
> > by using
> > > NFS mount to the backup server which is a E420, Solaris 8 and NBU
> > 3.4. Tape
> > > library is ADIC with 6xDLT8000 drives.
> > >
> > > Do you see any issues with this, specially when doing restores to
> > NFS
> > > mounted drives?
> > >
> > > Is this the preferred way of doing NDMP backups as compared to direct
> > > attaching tape drives to the files and using NBU extension?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > JG
> > >
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