I am trying to force NDMP LAN-free backups to keep the same tape mounted
and serially reuse it when a NetApp filer needs to write multiple backups.
We have just implemented our first NDMP LAN-free backups w/ TSM v5.5.1.1,
w/ a single NetApp filer backing up 16 VirtualFS from nightly snapshots,
Did you backup each filespace sequentially or all at once?
I.E.
serial
backup node nas /fs1 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs2 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs3 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs4 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs5 mode=full wait=yes
backup node nas /fs6