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nbmagic
Level 4
9 years ago

Can NetBackup backup datastore's snapshots?

We have NetApp tool "VSC" to generate snapshots on Datastore(NFS volumes). Currently we use these snapshots as backups.

Are there anyway can I use NB to backup these snapshots? If yes, how?

 

Thanks!

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  • Michal_Mikulik1's avatar
    Michal_Mikulik1
    Moderator
    9 years ago

    Hello,

    I think that using NDMP won't recognize individual VM's on a datastore, won't perfrom their snapshots etc. NDMP is more suitable for traditional file-level volumes.

    Here, I'd use Replication Director for VMware, which is aware of individual VM's and also aware of supported (SQL/Exchange) databases in them.

     Refer to this topic in NetBackup77_RepDirector_Guide.pdf, chapter 13.

    Michal

     

     

  • Shaf's avatar
    Shaf
    Level 6
    9 years ago
    Hey, You can backup those snapshots through ndmp backups
  • Shaf's avatar
    Shaf
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    ndmp how to:

     

    https://www.veritas.com/community/forums/configure-ndmp

     

    http://www.settlersoman.com/netbackup-for-ndmp-architecture-overview/

  • Michael_G_Ander's avatar
    Michael_G_Ander
    Level 6
    9 years ago

    You can but restore of a VM is not straight forward, especially if your VMWARE is using automatically load distribution, which makes the VM move from datastore to datastore

    If you run backup with netbackup anyway, why not look at netbackups integration with vmware ?