I can't wait until we upgrade our backup software to the point where we can do CAB... right now, we need to be really careful when we move volumes between aggregates and nodes :\

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Rue, Randy <rrue@fredhutch.org> wrote:

Both of these links are new to me, especially the CommVault. Thanks!

 

From: Basil [mailto:basilberntsen@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 6:10 PM
To: Rue, Randy
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Subject: Re: 8.3, NDMP and CommVault

 

Here's a document I found from Commvault that explains how to enable cluster aware backups on the Netapp: http://docs.commvault.com/commvault/v10/article?p=products/nas_ndmp/config_basic.htm

 

 

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Rue, Randy <rrue@fredhutch.org> wrote:

Hello All,

Forgive me asking what are essentially newbie questions but as we're setting up our first 8.3 clusters I pretty much am new.

We have a primary cluster, will replicate to a secondary DR cluster in another data center, and want monthly tape backups from the secondary cluster.

We have a pretty beefy CommVault setup for our 7-mode NetApp gear and will use the existing infrastructure.

First question: we're clear that we do not want "node scoped" backups, but instead want "SVM scoped" backups. But it's not clear from the documents I've found whether we can back up SVM volumes from the cluster level (like we did in 7-mode) or if we need to configure NDMP services, users, and backups for every SVM.

>From the NetApp NDMP Express Guide: "If the DMA supports the Cluster Aware Backup (CAB) extension, you can back up all the volumes hosted across different nodes in a cluster by enabling SVM-scoped NDMP, configuring a backup user account, and configuring LIFs for data and control connection." Am I just wanting to believe this supports my wish for cluster-wide backup configuration? Can we configure the cluster and reach all SVM volumes, or do we need to configure for every SVM?

Is anyone out there using CommVault and NDMP to back up 8.3 at a cluster level? Or at all?

Randy


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