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8 years ago

NDMP incremental forever.

Hi all. My customer has a huge EMC Isilon NAS, containing 2.4 Pb of data. All is not backed up, but some folders are. These contains typically up to 80 TB of data. A full backup will run NDMP backu...

7.7

sdo
8 years ago
This doc suggests that NDMP on the Isilon can be instructed to use Level=10, i.e. incremental forever:

https://mydocuments.emc.com/pub/en-us/isilon/onefs/7.2.1/ifs-pub-backup-and-recovery-guide/07-ifs-br-backing-up-and-recovering-data-with-ndmp.htm

Try passing the Level=10 to the Isilon NDMP data mover by specifying at the start of backup selection directives in the backup policy.