Backing up NetApp

The short answer is yes, you can backup the Netapp over NDMP to a NetBackup Appliance. This is a supported configuration. The following link covers how to setup Remote NDMP backup to disk, that is the same configuration as NDMP back to an Appliance.  

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=HOWTO53137&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1315583678938

Please note that only Media Server side dedupe is supported with Remote NDMP backup.

On a side note version 2.0 for the 5200 code should be out very soon and it offer a number of improvements.

Other helpful links.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH76495&key=15145

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=answerlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fbusiness%2Fsupport%2Fresources%2Fsites%2FBUSINESS%2Fcontent%2Fstaging%2FTECHNICAL_SOLUTION%2F31000%2FTECH31885%2Fen_US%2F3.0%2F267773.pdf&answerid=16777219&searchid=1315583489399

Paul Cummings

Senior Regional Product Manager

Information Management Group

Symantec Corporation  

I will give this a shot.  Thank you very much!!

Because i am using an appliance do i still have to go thru the configuration wizard step? 

Hi Stanleyj,

   Are you asking about disk pool configuration wizard? You don't need to run that as the appliance setup had already created the deduplication pool (or Advanced Disk pool) for you.

  In fact, the configuration is quite simple.

  1. Add the appliance to NetBackup domain

  2. Set up NDMP credentials on master server so that NetBackup can access your filer for starting NDMP sessions

  3. In your NDMP policy, point to the storage unit corresponding to deduplication pool on appliance.

Did you apply v 2.0 on your NetBackup 5200 appliances?

Sorry i didnt update this post.  I didnt realize that you cant browse in the backup selection tab.  You have to manually type in the volume location.

/vol/vol0/dataname

I kept trying to browse and when it would error out i though i had everything configured wrong.

Browsing requires to have some sort of client framework to list the objects and report back. Since the very purpose of NDMP is to avoid installing any backup client inside the NAS, there is no browse feature for NDMP.