Hi, I am successfully using NDMP to backup a netapp filer using netbackup 6.5mp3. I have some questions areound the capability of the backups.

 

I can backup the whole volume by specifying the File List of /vol/vol1 (this creates a snapshot on the filer and skips backup of all existing snapshots).

I can backup one previosuly created snapshot such as /vol/vol1/.snapshot/hourly.0 ( this performs a point in time backup using the specified existing snpashot)

 

(1) Is it possible to instruct netbackup to backup all snapshots that exist in the ./snapshot folder? (I could not get this to work)

(2) Is it possible to use wild cards to backup certain snapshots in the ./snapshot folder (such as ./snapshot/*snap_lun0*

 

The reason I would like to do this is that i am using SnapManager for VI to create my snapshots that exsit on the Filer. Therefore the naming convention changes for every snapshot. I need a way to specify a backup of exsiting snapshots when the snapshot names change for every snapshot - but the names do have a common factor such as 'storage_lun1' or 'every 4 hours'

 

Thanks for any help with this, Mark