12-15-2011 04:59 AM
Hi all,
we bought the Backup Exec 2010 Archiving Option for archiving our NetApp CIFS shares (we have also the NDMP option for regular backup).
Unfortunately when defining the "New archive job" I can't select my CIFS shares provided by netapp....why? Is it not supported?
12-15-2011 06:06 AM
Are you able to select and backup these CIFS shares in a normal backup job?
also does the archiving for normal files in the file server works.
12-15-2011 06:55 AM
What do you mean with "normal backup job"?
I can normaly backup my Netapp CIFS folders via NDMP....but I can't select a shared folder on Netapp (for example \\netapp-cifs\myshare) on the backup selection window.
I need to know if I can archive my CIFS shares exposed by Netapp.
Thanks.
12-15-2011 07:03 AM
Go to tools -option -network and seucrity -make sure "enable selection of shares" is enabled.
you should be able to select after that.
Take a backup and then archiving...not sure if you can arcihve data of a share though.
12-15-2011 08:15 AM
You can't mix an NDMP Option environment with a CIFS backup environment as to do a CIFS backup you would have to disable NDMP on your NetApp
Mind you I am also not sure we support the Archiving Option over a share as it might need a remote agent process running on the actual device that hold the data.
12-15-2011 08:21 AM
The "enable selection of shares" is already enabled.
To better understand the problem I show you what I find during backup selection:
Instead, this is what I find during archive job creation:
As you can see I can't select Microsoft Windows Network and then I can't find then my Netapp shares....
12-15-2011 08:25 AM
Hi Colin,
you are telling me that I need the remote agent running on the system that hold the share....but I'm just reading the Administrative Guide
and I can't find any reference about the need of an agent....only server side requirements.
12-16-2011 02:22 AM
Hi all,
can I have an official answer to my question?
Summarizing, can I perform file system archiving using NetApp CIFS shares?
Thanks
12-16-2011 05:33 AM
In the backup selection screen what happens if you manually create a user defined selection for your share - once this is created does it then show up in the New Archive Job screen?