NDMP, Netapp cDOT 8.2, and parent policy to coordinate snapshot creation?
Hi, I'm trying to coordinate the creation of backup Snapshots when I backup two seperate, but related volumes of data. Because we're running NBU 7.7.3 on Solaris, and Netapp cDOT 8.2, we cannot do CAB (Cluster Aware Backups) until we upgrade to cDOT 8.3 sometime in the future. Which is a pain. I've got two volumes, Foo & Bar, which need to be snapshotted at the same time, but are on seperate nodes. Would using a parent policy with two sub-policies be the way to make this happen? We don't need the actual NDMP backups to be in parallel at all. I've been looking at the docs, and we've done bpstart_notify.<POLICY> scripts in the past, but I'm a bit stumped on how I should do it now? If we put both volumes into one policy, then it won't run properly because the policy is bound to a single Node on the Netapp. And of course we have the volumes spread across multiple nodes. Thanks, John