Jeffrey Krueger wrote:
Also, are there any plans to make the C source version of ndmpcopy have "infinite incremental" capabilities as the jndmpcopy version does? By this I mean it allows for more than 9 incremental copies.
-- Jeff
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-level 0-9|i The level of the dump to use. 0 is a dump of the full tree, 1 is the incremental since the level 0, level 2 is the incremental since the level 1, ...
For ONTAP 5.3 and later, level 'i' is the incremental since the last level 'i' (effectively incrementals forever).Here are the diffs to add the "-level i" to ndmpcopy. No guarantees.
The "-level i" seems to copy the changes since the last level i, rather than since the last dump of any level (ie the first level i is always a level 0).
Exactly true. The level i NDMPcopies run completely independent of any numbered level.
The primary benefit of this is: You are trying to run NDMPcopies at the same time you run backups. It would be unfortunate if your regulalry scheduled backup entries interacted with your NDMPcopy entries.
Of course, you can also "name" the particular version of the dump/NDMPcopy you are running, but not all NDMP tools (including NDMPcopy) support this option, yet.
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