You don't have to use tape. You can do NDMP backups via TCP/IP to your regular TSM storage pool hierarchy. But AFAIK you still have to do it at the volume/share level that the NAS device understands, I don't think you can do it at the root.
Using "virtualmountpoint" is for backing up incrementally at the *file* level via NFS or CIFS mounts, not NDMP, so I'm not sure which way you are headed. Question is, what are you doing this for? NDMP is a stupid, simplistic protocol. You won't like what you have to do to achieve an individual file restore. If you are trying to get DR capability to rebuild your NDMP shares in case of an emergency, it makes sense. If you are just trying to provide backup coverage to restore people's files like you would from a file server, it may not. If you want to do NDMP via TCP/IP instead of direct to tape, reply with your TSM server platform and server level, and I'll send you back the page reference in the manual you need... W -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dury, John C. Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] file system backups of a Dell NDMP Equallogic device We have two Dell NDMP storage devices and a TSM server at both sites. We'd like to be able to root file level (image backups don't help much) backups (and restores if necessary) of the entire NDMP device to the local TSM server. Can someone point me in the right direction or tell me how they did it? NAS/NDMP is pretty new to me and from what I have read so far, the documentation talks about backing up directly to tape, which we don't have any more. All of our storage is online. What I was originally planning on doing, was creating all of the NFS shares on one linux server, and backing them up as /virtualmountpoints. I'd like to setup just one which points to the root of all the NFS systems on the NAS device but I see no way to do that either. Any help is appreciated.
