Hi Alan. Chap 7 of the Admin Guide is the best doc I've found. First off, are you going to send the data via TCP/IP and have it land in a regular storage pool, or attach a tape drive directly to your Celerra via your SAN? You will find in Chap 7 that those are two very different scenarios.
If the latter, then yes, you have to log into the Celerra and find out what IT thinks its device name is, after you get the tape drive attached. If you are doing NDMP dumps across the SAN, all the TSM server is doing is sending a "Go forth and run NDMP" command to the Celerra. The Celerra is doing everything else, so it has to know how to find the drive. If the doc doesn't help you, feel free to contact me directly, I'll try to dredge up my notes. W -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 5:05 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Celerra NDMP Hi, folks. I'm in the happy state of needing to attempt some NDMP backups. Remember that 12TB FS conversation we had a while back? Well boy howdy, someone has just presented me with one. We're failing to complete backups in any reasonable timeframe. I intend to continue experimenting with The Right Way, but I need a stopgap, and it looks like NDMP is it. But I'm having difficulty deciphering some of the instructions: they talk about telling the DataMover the controller, ID, and lun. I may be dense, but I'm accustomed to using rmt devices or WWNs. Anybody got a pointer to the Fine Manual ? The logs of this list include a tantalizing reference to success after "reading between the lines a little bit"; but I was unable to find anything concrete. I'm on Version 5, Release 5, Level 3.0 of TSM, in case it matters. - Allen S. Rout
