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Use Symantec BackupExec 2012 with vnxe3100
Hello
How to setup NDMP on vnxe 3100?
Where can i found a guide, white paper, sample to setup ndmp on vnxe ?
Have doing similar configuration ? what do you think about it ?
Thanks for suggestion
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- Click Settings > Shared Folder Server Settings.
- In the Other Options section, choose Enable NDMP.
To reset an NDMP password, clear the Enable NDMP checkbox and then check it again.
- Enter or change the NDMP password.
- Click Apply Changes.
To back up shared folders with Backup Exec, perform the following tasks:
Use Symantec BackupExec 2012 with vnxe3100
Create a Backup Exec NDMP server to associate with an Shared Folder Server
- From the Unisphere dashboard, create a Shared Folder Server with Windows Shares (CIFS) enabled.
- Select Settings > Shared Folder Server Settings, and specify the following settings: Select NDMP to enable NDMP on the CIFS Shared Folder Server.
- Launch Backup Exec console.
- From the Backup Exec console, add an NDMP server object for the CIFS Shared Folder Server. Specify the following: IP address of the Shared Folder Server.
- From the Backup Exec console, create an NDMP user account. Specify the following information for the account settings:
- Save the Backup Exec NDMP server settings.
The Shared Folder Server account name is ndmp (this is not editable).Enter an NDMP account Password for the CIFS Shared Folder Server and click Apply Changes.
NDMP port (the default is port 1000).
User name: ndmp (the CIFS Shared Folder Server NDMP user name).
Password: NDMP server password specified in Step 2.
Use Symantec BackupExec 2012 with vnxe3100
- From the Backup Exec console, create a backup Device (for example, by using the Configure Devices Assistant).
- Within the device settings, associate the Backup Exec device with the NDMP server you created for the NDMP server.
- Specify appropriate settings for the Backup Exec Device, such as: Alias name for the device
- Save the device settings
- From the Backup Exec console Device panel, view the device Backup to Disk location, and verify that the device is enabled and online.
Path to the location where backup data will reside.
Maximum size of backup-to-disk files.
Any other applicable settings.
Use Symantec BackupExec 2012 with vnxe3100
- From the Backup Exec console, create a new backup job.
- In the backup job Settings, choose the Device associated with the Shared Folder NDMP account.
- Specify additional settings for the backup job, including back up scheduling information.
- After the first scheduled run of the backup job, check the job history under Job Monitoring to view the success or failure of the job.
The attached doc on NDMP can help you further
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Frequently Asked Questions EMC VNXe NDMP.pdf
Frequently Asked Questions EMC VNXe NDMP.pdf
Reply Hello
Just fyi we recently uploaded a VNXe NDMP FAQ which may also be useful for you to reference:
https://community.emc.com/docs/DOC-19799
Kind Regards
Graeme
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jdr75
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Posted November 5th, 2012 14:00
Thanks