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Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide


Appendix A. Backing Up NAS File Systems Using NDMP

Tivoli Storage Manager supports backup and restore of network attached storage (NAS) file system images to tape drives or libraries that are locally attached to NAS file servers. Data Protection for NDMP enables backup and restore support on the Tivoli Storage Manager Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Windows.NET, AIX, and Solaris servers for NAS file servers from Network Appliance. Data Protection for NDMP is available only with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition..

For information on how to configure Data Protection for NDMP on the Tivoli Storage Manager server, see the following publications:

See Data Protection for NDMP Version 5.1 Requirements (Enterprise Edition only) for client and server hardware and software requirements.

After configuring Data Protection for NDMP, the server connects to the NAS device and uses NDMP to initiate, control, and monitor each backup and restore operation. The NAS device performs outboard data transfer to and from the NAS file system to a locally attached tape drive or library.

It is not necessary for a client node to mount a NAS file system to perform backup or restore operations on that file system.

The benefits of performing backups using Data Protection for NDMP include the following:

The following support is provided:

The following functions are not supported:


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