Have ben a while since I worked with NetApp, but think it can be done by having a Netbackup policy or maybe a netapp schedule creating the snapshots and another Netbackup policy to backup the snapshots.
Back then you could backup the volume snapshot by use /volume/.snaphot in the backup selection.
We thought about setting up a policy to schedule two backups at the same time, but what happens if there is only one tape drive available? Only one policy will fire and the snapshots won't be coordinated.
Right now I'm trying to write a script to do all the pre-setup of the volumes, which is to create a pair of flexclone volumes at the same time. Then it runs bpbackup -w 0 -i .... to run the two policies. Now I'm running into the problem where even though the path is there, it fails.
Does anyone know if NBU keeps track of the volume 'dsid' value? So even if the path is the same, if the dsid is different, it fails to do the backup.
So what might be even better is if I can just create a snapshot on the parent volume and point NBU (7.7.3 Sparc) to the full path of that snapshot which I've created, and backup that instead using NDMP. This was trivial in CommVault 8 & 9.
Do I need to install the Snapshot director module? Gah! What a pain!
