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

Here's the Netapp documentation on cluster aware backups: https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196874/html/GUID-D1DBE2B8-1C3E-444D-9A08-84B39C8B3027.html

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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